Hot Chip - C/D?

a lot more acoustic .. no electro toys in use ...

Driving in my Peugeot heyyeah
20 inch rims with the chrome now heyyeah
Blazing out Yo La Tengo heyyeah
Driving around Putney with the top down heyyeah

"no fit state" is the high point.

what's the score? do they have a proper album out?
the track that DFA remixed is called 'just like we'. that's ace too.

i can't think back to this experience without cringing.

no, have a need for a breathy, "sincere" Ween. I have not yet tried the CD myself.

do you like it?

there's also the Over and Over / Just Like We single, which I guess is a preview of their second record

is this gonna be on DFA?

Careful
Over & Over
Boy From School
Colours
Just Like We (Breakdown)
No Fit State
Tchaparian
Look After Me
The Warning
Arrest Yourself
So Glad to See You
Untitled

its still way way fun and i can still feel it with my hands and my tongue but something seems a bit temporary about it all. (god, jaded about an album not even released for another 2 months - someone cut me up soon.)

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they were fan-fuckingtastic at Sonar

I'm very puzzled by the "temporary" comments people seem to be making - of all the new artists 2000-onwards, these guys are one of the few that get constant replay - probably the album I've listened to most this year, never really outstays its welcome. if a better record comes out this year it'll be shock.

i'll bump this thread on fri so kids can maybe pre/at-show meetup

What's up with all this stuff about American R&B/hip hop? I don't hear it in the music. Is it press sheet hype or what?

The short answer is you're not listening to enough mainstream R&B radio.

The long answer is go pick up the current issue of (gags, puts iron to head) URB, where you can read about how Hot Chip attempt R&B but it 'all comes out wrong' (paraphrasing). You can interpret this in any number of ways, but you're a smart chap so I'll let you do the legwork.

Bottom line - they carry inflections from contemporary R&B/hip hop production, but when removed from their context said inflections often sound far afield. As they do with the Chipsters.

I agree with this -- though I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "inflections", and I think it goes beyond the production. To me, Hot Chip sounds closer to contemporary R&B than it does to other forms of electronic dance music such as German micro-house. Like the Pet Shop Boys did in the '80s, they are working out of a popular R&B and dance idiom, but because of the singing voices and other influences, they end up sounding rather different.

Hot Chip's new cover of Matthew Dear's Don & Cherri is so lovely.

how do i eat hot chip

carefully

kraftwerk remixes too?!

there's also a promo of a new single called 'shake a fist' going around.

the remix of 'La Forme' is aight

haha I actually wound up liking The Warning, though not enough to give the earlier stuff another try.

"Shake a Fist" is totally awesome.

i'm surprised by how much ilm hated these guys back in the day!

thought the kraftwerk covers were meh

"Ready For The Floor" is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up there on the list of songs that need to hit the internet right this expletive-deleted second. V. excited about the Soulwax one, too (although I still think their much-derided bosh-bosh-bosh remixing strategy kicks much ass, so ymmv)!

"Shake A Fist". Whoa. brane. melted.

they've always been almost great to me, but this is something else.

they are boring drips. it's like indie record store nerds finally got into r'n'b and dance music because pitchfork told them that's ok now, then decided to make really boring "eclectic" music.

Please can you and every other dullard stop assuming that everyone's life and interests revolve around fucking Pitchfork? Or go and do it somewhere else?

not everyone, just goons like hot chip. c'mon, the singer sounds like neil from the young ones.

"please leave our over-hyped bands alone!"

Mencap OTM. also, max, claiming that they are indie kids gone dance, probably says more about you than them. they gleefully sent up this attitude in "down with prince".

I don't have any particular feelings either way about this band FWIW

i am a dance kid that now listens to a bit of everything. (like everybody these days, natch)

but not hot chip!

The 30 seconds after the studio dude comes in on 'Shake a fist' are probably my favourite musical moment of the year.

http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2191611,00.html

every remix, every dj set, practically every song (bar the erol rmx and over & over), every zany gig with them lined up in a self-conscious row by these guys is utter utter shit. the ultimate one-hit wonder who lucked into some bizarro world of cool by virtue of being on dfa

I kinda wish they'd stick to the slow stuff - it suits them so much better than the clever-clogs dance shit. The title track of 'Made In The Dark' is stunning.

Out at the Pictures, song of the year, right?

they've always been almost great to me, but this is something else.

agreed! i picked up Made in the Dark yesterday (promo copy, full artwork etc.) and it's fantastic. i liked the previous two records in spots, and not so much in others. but this is their best work, by far. very very good.

i havn't even heard it yet but this shit is going to be huge around here

made in the dark is a MASSIVE album. crikey.

fuck these guys

Has this leaked?

Yep it's leaked, i agree about the slow stuff being better too. The background whistles in "We're Looking For A Lot of Love" are very nice

i listened to this once on the drive down during xmas. i thought it was terrible. the wife who's a huge fan.. thought it was terrible.

i've only heard a couple tracks from this band ever, most of which i wasn't into, but that 'shake a fist' track is good.

fuck these guys
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they certainly do inspire a great deal of ire, but it seems to be all based on their "impurity" and the fact that a lot of their fans seem to be obnoxious buttheads

I liked/like "Boy From School" quite a bit, for one, but the tracks that I've heard from the new record sound like inferior OMD songs.

They're actually pretty good, even if their new record suffers from some questionable sequencing. Their problem, listener-wise, is that they touch on a number of genres whose fans don't like each other very much.

blah-di-blah...
Anyway, I love most of the record and repeated listening pays off. I love how "Hold On" has got the feel & energy of Talking Heads ca. Stop Making Sense, including Byrne-guitar-chops - can't wait to see/hear that one performed live.

This sounded really good on the first listen. The 'getting everything wrong in a good way' moments outweigh the 'getting everything wrong full stop' moments this time. I like the stadium rock guitar at the beginning of One Pure Thought. Not sure about Bendable Poseable though.

Also, they're much better at beats this time.

i wonder what their ep on victory garden is now worth

wish i'd bought it

Boring, and I liked the first two.

i don't like Ready For The Floor much - 'boring' and 'OMD' pretty much nail it!

Ready For The Floor certainly doesn't sound good in a club in the way that Over and Over did.

Not really feeling this so far - sounds to me like the syndrome of "they were great until they thought they could do it" once again.

no, it wouldn't sound good in a club. it's music for jogging.
xp

Over and Over didn't sound particularly good in clubs either.

Actually I may be alone in thinking that Over & Over is kind of overrated.

It's nowhere near the best song on The Warning. (Look After Me is, btw)

I think it's a terrific record, though it seems like the two wings of their writing - Fisher-Price Danja Hands and Putney Delta blues ballads - are getting ever further apart... something the sequencing rather exacerbates. Good as it is, I'm not sure there's anything as good as 'Boy from school', which felt like a perfect midpoint between the two...

"Over & Over"'s a fine record but not really one for the clubs; the original mix is (for those purposes) awkwardly non-committal.

I danced to it a lot!

yeah, me too. and still prefer it to the remixes personally.

i probably wouldn't dance to it now tho thanks to culture show

I just realized my problem with Made in the Dark: it should end at "Wrestlers" (which sounds uncannily like Hot Shots II-era Beta Band) and be a flawless 44-minute record, but instead it's a lopsided 55-minute one.

Still one of the better recs so far this year.

also "Out at the Pictures" should go on longer, it's amazing.

is that the first song? i like that.

i hate hate hate the spoken interlude in shake a fist.

same. it reminds me of something off ninja tunes

It's Todd Rundgren! I love that part.

You'd be much better off buying Something/Anything? and have done with it.

i realise it's todd rundgren! it's just that whole let's interrupt the song + have someone speaking like 'this is an audio test, now let's try the right channel' etc etc thing that bugs me (and reminds me of ninja tune)

Really I'm just getting tired of record collection pop.

Admittedly Todd pretty much fired the starting pistol for record collection pop but he used his sources as inspiration rather than crutches.

This is my sticking point with the whole critical thing about oh isn't it so much better these days, all music ever made is freely available on t'internet and kids can pick n' mix and come up with all sorts of Heston Blumenthal-esque wacky fusions it's never been healthier.

But where's the backstory, the emotion, the purpose? Since the likes of Hot Chip are not Bill Burroughs they can't rely on the accidental effects of cut and paste in themselves (and in any case Burroughs never tried to pluck anything from thin air). All right, they've bought or downloaded some old Todd records. So have I. So what?

Have you written a song as catchy as "Shake a Fist"?

(Admittedly, that's a pretty strawman response to your post, but seriously - reducing their act to "they've bought or downloaded some old Todd records" is pretty ridiculous. I hear plenty of emotion and purpose. I mean, all you've really got here is "I don't care for their music," right?)

The last one was patchy but very good in places, SS. As was their first album.

But I don't see any aesthetic or emotional purpose in interrupting one of the better songs on this record to indulge their Vinyl Vultures fantasy and since it has zero relevance to the rest of the song and is not sufficiently amusing or startling for that not to matter then I question its inclusion.

Recommended listening: the "Titanic" middle part of "Oops...I Did It Again" and the Shortwave Set album.

i had no idea that was todd rundgren!

I like it better than the previous ones. Still feels it's too sophisticated and too clever, and perhaps next time they will strike the right balance. In that case they will deliver a classic.

The worst thing about the Rundgren bit is that they're jacking someone else's joke! Why didn't they just record they're own bit like that?

Crap Kraft Dinner remains their best song.

their

bcuz you would have ripped them for biting rundgren

New song (or newish, was apparently given out to the first whatever number of people at one of the pre-album concerts) "Too Deep" on iTunes now.

Both tracks from that 7" are probably still here.

glad 'One Pure Thought' is the next single - best track on the album

I kinda really like this band. Not sure what's holding me back from full embrace. The songs are so good, maybe it's the delivery. Maybe they're not fully embracing me!

do like the new album but its def their most commercial/most 80s.

They covered New Order's "Temptation" at Coachella.

do we really need a breathy, "sincere" ween?
When they sound this good, fuck yeah!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ0zYMeox0s&feature=related

Good clip.

xxxpost

they've been doing that for a while now - they did the same "No Fit State" -> "Temptation" trick a year ago. it's still awesome as hell, though.

I still like their "Crap Kraft Dinner" -> Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere"

Hmm, have gone back to Boy from School tonight for some reason, and now I can't stop listening to it. The programming is pretty brilliant on that track.

Also, I heard them when they were guest dj-ing on some BBC radio thing, and they played some pretty amazing stuff. I wish I had even the slightest clue as to what any of it was. I could sure use me some sweet sweet techno sounds tonight, though...

Amazing how Ready For The Floor has become a proper pop floor filler. Played it last night and people just went mental.

dell ill upload a the to diff versions of them doing 'boy from school' later. they rework that song a lot and the two i have are v. different but great

wow

dell ill upload two diff versions**

awesome, thanks!

dell you may be thinking of their essential mix from last year.

this is a 7 min live version from the bonus disc of the new album. really good audio.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/12576326eeadfca4/

this is an acoustic version from a bbc session i think and it just kills me everytime
http://www.zshare.net/audio/1257647696475ed5/

fuck these guys

no

Anyone else heard the Alexis Taylor album?

I haven't, but re: hot chip, I love the bit about a minute into "ready for the floor" when the chord changes and it shifts from a "track" to a "song".

holy crap. they have a song w/robert wyatt!

http://www.parlophone.co.uk/hotchip/

just listened. boring

apparently they have a cover of a vampire weekend song sung by peter gabriel also. :-/

the musics really good on their VW cover but not sure about the vocals.

not sure about PG's vocals? whaaaaaa

Love the Gabriel cover, was really stoked for the Wyatt collab but on first listen it's rather underwhelming and not Wyattesque enough.

The Wyatt collab is zzzzzz

cutty sent me this, its pretty dope, i had to listen to it a couple times, i think its better than the original

id like their r kelly tribute/pisstake if it had slightly more genuine lyrics and not lines like 'aiming for your loins'.

otherwise, the music (kinda like tvotr on blind meets prince) kills me.

i need a whole album of hot chip and peter gabriel

So I am finally listening to Hot Chip for the first time ever.

First track on The Warning is fucking horrible. Next three very enjoyable.

made in the dark is better, thought stylus always overrated the warning a bit

"boy from school" is their best song tho

"the warning" (the song) is one of their best songs too

Neither are exactly perfect all the way through - The Warning is patchy in the first half and really picks up in the second half and its more delicate moments are gorgeous. Made In The Dark begins awesomely and then they start fannying around with stupid comedy nonsense like The Wrestlers and it falls apart.

their delicate moments are always the best, i love the ballads on made in the dark

ready for the floor>>>

I got both The Warning and MitD for £5 a piece.

What else is worth hearing; early EPs?

First album, Coming On Strong, is really good. Better than Made In The Dark.

Their entry in the DJ Kicks series is almost worth hearing for their track 'My Piano', classic old school piano house banger.

yeah i love my piano, was hoping the whole of made in the dark would be as good as that

first album is smug duff crud. plus it hung out in my girlfriends cd changer for about 2 years ruining every long car journey in this period. I liked the warning as it seemed theyd risen above the too smart to dance fanboy toss of the first and made a decent sounding album. boy from school had some good remixes. the last one is rubbish though, i also saw them in germany last summer and they were behaving like a bunch of bloody primadonnas because the fat one who hardly sings mic wasnt working

What a whingeing bastard.

fuck these dudes?

yes, fuck these dudes

didn't know they'd made a video for 'Wrestlers', fun

"i need a whole album of hot chip and peter gabriel"

^^^^
it is both better than the VW version and better than any other Hot Chip song that I've heard.

Where is it?

new stuff goin on - http://store.digitalstores.co.uk/hotchip/index.html

joe goddard solo album also imminent

I never listened to A Bugged Out Mix by Hot Chip from earlier in the year, so I wasn't familiar with "Take it In" before now, but a single version of it has went leaky and I'm really loving it.

Next album due in Feb '10 apparently?

They wax and wane in my affections, based largely on how patchy the albums are, but then they come back again with a killer single:

like this myspace video for One Life Stand

Pitchfork are taking the piss right?

i don't have an opinion on hot chip in general but this is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfCOISPgW9o

!!!

I know nothing about these guys but their set at Lollapalooza was outstanding.

They were rly under-par two weeks ago supporting LCD here

Not having Joe Goddard on board can’t have helped

http://s3.amazonaws.com/musicnetwork/public/galleries/95/hclcd-4_431x647.jpg

OK so I picked up One Life Stand and like it a lot, but I have to admit that their blueprint is endless variations of Sniff 'N The Tears' "Driver Seat"

'Gabriel' by Joe Goddard is as good if not better than anything Hot Chip have ever done, I think.

attempting to gauge that statement by trying to remember exactly how you feel about hot chip

Gabriel is fantastic though

I really like Hot Chip, Gabriel is just such an earworm though.

gabriel is great! we talked abt it on the dfa thread

"gabriel" is kind of unexpectedly amazing O_O

It reminds me of a Basement Jaxx single a bit, albeit a DIY Basement Jaxx single. Love the vocalist, whoever she is.

valentina

I'd like this band a whole lot more if it weren't for the singer's voice. Like, when I was describing King Creosote one time I said something along the lines of how he sings in a way that if it were anyone else it would come off extremely wanky and insincere, but somehow he manages not to, whereas Hot Chip guy really really does.

What's that track that sounds like La Isla Bonita? I love that.

Really? I think Hot Chip dude sounds almost painfully sincere a lot of the time.

painful, i'll give you that. i can imagine it being a bit of a marmite thing. like, technically he's a very good singer, but something about the way he sings gets my back up. can't pinpoint why.

"over-earnest" is a better word than insincere.

Is he over-earnest or insincere? Make your mind up.

their music makes me think of really bland formulaic graphic design

someone played me a joe goddard album along with something called sbtrkt to demonstrate the kind of sounds she wanted to get. all i remember was that it had a little bit of everything current and fashionable in it. bit of dancehall, bit of pitched down vocals, bit of a disco stomp (the beats were wank). competent, but BORING.

nothing sounded particularly vital or exciting, the dancehall bits in particular bought the lolz, so weak and weedy

i'm sure there'll be a good remix or two tho

i dont think hot chip dude is a technically a good singer? i've heard little but he kind of speak sings mumbles in a fairly limited range

if you play this and then, say, chelonis r jones i think the sincerity thing is really obvious

hot chip is like "this is what we want to do, listen to our attempt at doing it"

chelonis is like "this is what i do, deal with it"

"gabriel" is kind of unexpectedly amazing O_O

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lol yeah i was saying on the dfa thread that i think the fact that its a hot chip side project will stop ppl checking for it

Is he over-earnest or insincere? Make your mind up.

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"over-earnest" is a better word than insincere.

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Crackle Box, "Gabriel" is in a different league from his album. one of my favourite tracks for a long time.

Yeah, the album was not good. It was 90% instrumentals iirc? The vocal really makes Gabriel.

like, technically he's a very good singer

no he's not, lol

also...over-earnest and insincere mean opposite things, right?

i didn't take any notice of "gabriel" at first because it was a hot chip side project (and i don't even mind them) - v thankful their own vox are nowhere near it

xxposts Rather, his earnestness tips him into insincerity. I like one or two of their songs, but I agree with Crackle Box. His voice, and their overall sound, hint at what they're trying to do but fall short all too often. The emotions and attempts at zeitgeist-capturing pop have always sounded like they were knocked up in a brainstorming session called 'Things That Are Cool', ("Shutter shades", I like it, maybe a bit dated but we'll stick it up anyway. Okay, what else?)...

I was just mildly trolling because 'over-earnest' and 'insincere' are kind of the opposite of one another.

I think Alexis (or is it Joe?) has a reasonable falsetto (it sounds great on songs like Boy From School). He can certainly sing in tune, but his voice is kind of weedy and I can totally understand why that would be offputting. I'm put off by it sometimes as well.

I don't really see the point in comparing them to Chelonis at all, I don't think they're even aiming for the same thing.

Argh xpost.

i can see how over-earnest and insincere could produce a similar effect in a vocal even though they are different.

I don't think they're going for "Things That Are Cool" generally. I just think they're music geeks who try to stuff as many of the different sounds they like into their music as they can. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Goddard is a big UK Funky fan i believe, which you can hear in "Gabriel"

Boys From School is good - and yeah it's an example of his voice working well with the track.

Something I don't really understand: About Group. What I've heard is nowhere near as interesting as it was made out to be in the interview I read.

no they're not aiming for the same thing, that wasn't the point, it's just an attitude thing, i'm not really into that dilettante approach to stuff

and yeh, i just listened to gabriel and yeah it's really good, that "girl you've gone to far" bit is stuck in my head already. hope he gets a hit out of it. i didn't want to like it, but it's all that vocalist rlly. again, look forward to the remixes

I can see why the dilettante thing would be offputting as well - at the same time I get the feeling that being in Hot Chip is probably more fun than being in most bands.

I like the way that any given time there can be four or five "Hot Chip DJ Sets" happening simultaneously around the world. A couple of the lesser members have DJ'd more than once in my home town, which no one of note ever comes to. Gotta get that paper

maybe only three or four simultaneously, I think some of them only DJ with another one. Joe also DJs with both 2 Bears and Greco-Roman Soundsystem tho

About Group is literally just some jams to tape, easy to not find that interesting. I got the first band-name-less album, s'alright but they're no Necks

Alexis has the falsetto, Joe has a much deeper voice, which I really love when they use it as a counterpoint to Alexis (whether in normal register or fluting and cracking), but they seem to feature him less and less as the band goes on

heard them (one of them) dj once and they did that HORRIBLE franchise club dj thing of playing a million intros to tracks and never getting through a song before thinking of some other 'amazing' track to mix it with. Gave me a fucking headache. Not to say the selection of songs were bad but jesus it made me weary.

radiomix #19: Joe Goddard - http://dfarecords.com/main/archives/2504

01. Life Is Something Special (Acapella) - NYC Peech Boys
02. Pata Pata - Matias Aguayo feat. Lerato
03. Thru the Skies (Beats) - Kenlou
04. Together Forever - Exodus (Acapella)
05. Jungle Jazz - Cajmere
06. Getting Me Down - Blawan
07. Gabriel (Dub) - Joe Goddard
08. Heres Your Trance Now Dance - Omar S
09. Down! - Kyle Hall
10. Pretty Baby- Sister Sledge (Bootleg)
11. Love and Happiness - Voyage Direct
12. Man or Mistress - Levon Vincent
13. I Got That Feeling - Dreamer G
14. The Freak Inside - Chicago Housing Authority
15. Dirty Love - Linkwood w/Gabriel Acapella
16. Chicano (Danny Krivit Edit) - Black Blood
17. Sicko Cell
18 Check Out 5 - Naif Orchestra

So The 2 Bears album then? It's pretty good

if the vocals on 'work' put me off, how will i feel abt the album

yeah you're probably not gonna like it

i listened to a bit of it today and thought... "big beat is back"? 'work' is pretty good, if you can overcome the vocals. i think i prefer joe's solo stuff

ILM's most hate to love/love to hate group will have a new album in 2012

http://pitchfork.com/news/45596-hot-chip-get-in-our-heads-on-new-album/
Hot Chip are back with a new album, new tour, and a new label. On June 12 in the U.S. and June 11 in the UK, they'll release In Our Heads on Domino, a departure from longtime home DFA/Astralwerks. The follow-up to 2010's One Life Stand was produced by Hot Chip themselves with producer/engineer Mark Ralph.

The band will hit the road this summer, including a stop at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.

In Our Heads:

01 Motion Sickness
02 How Do You Do
03 Don't Deny Your Heart
04 Look at Where We Are
05 These Chains
06 Night and Day
07 Flutes
08 Now There Is Nothing
09 Ends of the Earth
10 Let Me Be Him
11 Always Been Your Love

06: Al B. Sure! cover? One can dream.

Love "One Night Stand" so much. I hope they play more than the Fork Fest here, though given Hot Chip's past tours, I bet they hit Chicago five times in 2012.

One Life Stand is my favourite albums of theirs, really excited for the this.

"Flutes" is kind of awesome. It has an honest-to-god propulsive beat!

ILM's most hate to love/love to hate group

Really? Always thought they were largely controversial and mildly to well liked here.

My reaction to the new track is basically the same as all the others - great song, shame about the voice. But I usually get used to the voice after a while and find myself wondering why it bothered me.

i'm sure his voice didn't always use to be this bad - it was never great but for the past few years it's been unlistenable

It's weird, it's sort of quavery but he's never actually out of tune, so after a while I get used to it. There are two vocalists and I think the quavery one has been doing more of late. Wish he'd sing in the lower register more though, but this goes for basically all male singers ever with me, especially indie dudes.

It's definitely worse. I haven't been able to listen to anything since the first two albums because of that voice.

Huh. I find the singing in Hot Chip possibly its greatest attribute. No joke. Reminds me of ... Squeeze? I don't know, but I love how approachable they are.

I hated the vocals on One Life Stand at first and then grew to love pretty much the whole album, but when Gabriel came out last year it reminded me of how amazing Hot Chip could have been had they gone down the Basement Jaxx route and roped in a rotating cast of singers.

What an obnoxious video!

These guys ran out of ideas a long time ago.

Just heard Flutes from the upcoming release. Love it, dreamy and v. pretty. I have a weak spot for synth pop, though, so good -> grrreat.

First proper single is out there. It's very addictive.

http://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/hot-chip-night-day-radio-edit

Every time there's a new Hot Chip single and I hear praise on it I get a bit excited and hopeful, then I listen to it and feel frustrated by the horrible vocals. This is no different.

Like I know I shouldn't ever expect the vocals to not be insufferably twee by this point but there's so much muscle in this new effort, it all seems so mismatched with a frustrating amount of potential.

I love this, especially the deadpan DJ bit. "I like Zapp not Zappa/So Stop your jibber-jabber." I don't mind Alexis's vocals as long as he's not doing ballads.

I think the new single is fierce!

I don't mind Alexis's vocals as long as he's not doing ballads.

he should definitely get Joe to sing those

I think the new single is fierce!

dude's voice is actually the exact opposite of fierce

wow this is just... wow. i am so mad i decided to listen to that.

He reminds me of Tom Ellard from Severed Heads, but at least Ellard had the sense to filter/distort his vocals.

I've been a Hot Chip apologist for a long time, but it ends now.

I'm kind of in love with this at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH_HEXzPB4k&feature=relmfu

so Grosvenor blokey is a full member now?

Alexis voice sounds fine there btw

I keep warming to them a little more with each passing year. From a starting position of "Who are these jokers?" I am now at "I think Hot Chip are probably the best modern British band." Which is not something I expected to believe.

funny, i've gone the other way - i found them to be overall a Good Thing earlier in their career, maybe not a band i'd be obsessed about but reliable for the occasional great jam, enjoyable live show that no one in any group would object to, fun DJ sets, good fodder for remixers. but ennui has definitely set in over the years as it becomes more and more clear that they're just the kind of journeymen whose output is permanently stuck at three-star quality. i listened to the new one out of a sense of duty and was relieved when it finished..

Alexis voice sounds fine there btw

sounds bloody awful imo.

well comparatively!

though if Grosvenor's up playing things and singing now it would be a boon to turn most of the vocals over to him and Joe

I keep warming to them a little more with each passing year. From a starting position of "Who are these jokers?" I am now at "I think Hot Chip are probably the best modern British band." Which is not something I expected to believe.

― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens)

I kind of agree with this. Really hated them when I first heard them, did not get the fuss about Over & Over at all but now they might just be my favourite British band around. Night & Day is the weakest of the new tracks I've heard but that one I just posted is one of the best things they've done. There's like 3 great choruses in that song. As for his vocals I've no problem with them at all, he always sounds really vulnerable which kind of works with how warm the music is.

I like a couple of songs off each album. I don't think they've ever managed to be inspired enough, often enough. I like the idea of them.

I think their last two albums are head and shoulders above the first three. It's like they've always loved dance music but for ages they felt obliged to put air quotes around it. The new album makes me think of New Order's Technique.

I don't like Alexis' trousers.

so Grosvenor blokey is a full member now?

he and girl drummer lady are in the new (Serafinowicz-directed, Reggie Watts- and Terence Stamp-starring) video so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fxg2JbWA7Nk

She is the drummer from New Young Pony Club apparently.

It's a good video but I'm starting to get annoyed that they chose Night & Day as the single instead of Don't Deny Your Heart.

sounds good

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/03/154073556/first-listen-hot-chip-in-our-heads

New album is really good. Let Me Be Him might just be the most moving song they've done.

Incredible song - maybe their best yet.

The album version of "Don't Deny Your Heart" is fucking ace.

I'm loving this album

Yeah Don't Deny Your Heart sounds so great, it could be a really big hit for them. There really isn't anything on here I don't like, yet another great album.

thirding the Don't Deny Your Heart love

the first song on this is fucking amazing

so if I've been skeptical since 2006 should I listen?

The production's a lot better on this than on previous Hot Chip records, but if you've not been fussed about them before I doubt this is exactly going to change your mind.

"Don't Deny Your Heart" is good!

the first song on this is fucking amazing

― J0rdan S

Might be my favourite opening track they've done.

i don't know don't deny sounds like it's building into something great but then fumbles it on the chorus which sounds like it's beamed in from another song. that's off 2 listens admittedly.

I love this band so much. Don't see why anyone would be "skeptical," though. I think you either love them or you don't, but Alfred, it seems comfortably in your wheelhouse.

(Also, incredible live act, which helps)

xxpost, i agreed at first about the sudden shift w/ the chorus but after 4 or 5 listens it's become fun and endearing

xpost i definitely am skeptical about them -- i thought the warning and made in the dark were solid but i never really gelled with them beyond the big singles. and i thought one life stand was a pretty weak record. but i love this one back to front.

The dinkiness has always bothered me but it sounds – on first listen – like they've developed their grooves.

Huh. I think "One Life Stand" is their best one, and the first one that sounded fully groove-developed to me. I love the wistfulness to much of their stuff - the Wyatt collab was a tip-off - and the fact that they are kind of a band that makes you dance rather than a dance band, which puts them in the same hybrid box as New Order and LCD Soundsystem. But really more idiosyncratic than both of those acts.

I disagree re New Order.

I do love "One Life Stand" the single.

You mean that you think New Order is idiosyncratic? I used to think so, when the band was still finding its way, but as much as I love New Order I find the group pretty conservative, actually. Stuff I once saw as adventurous I now see as either lazy or half thought out. The miracle of New Order is that that usually still worked!

Not going to take sides but this album really reminds me of Technique in its balance of introvert and extrovert.

I do love how Hot Chip, unlike LCD Soundsystem, can get away with recalling New Order without sounding like New Order. I think that keys in on one of its gifts.

i think maybe i just never found my way inside of those idiosyncrasies, never found the proper angle from which to listen to the unique things they were doing, so to speak. which is why Boy From School, Ready for the Floor -- where idiosyncrasies are balanced with easy universality -- appealed to me the most. One Life Stand being the "most Hot Chip" and therefore probably most idiosyncratic of their albums, i "got it" the least. but i've taken to the new one so instantly that i think it may be my key for going back and understanding their other music.

exactly. I understand their goofiness attracts people; to me it sounds arch.

Again, I think the group live is key. You think you only like the singles until you see the band pull off two-hours of all killer stuff. Though I admit I can imagine it coming off arch, if anything I also get a sense of over-earnestness. Hence the Duality of the Hot Chip Thing.

word. plus Alexis Taylor has a very, very odd voice that doesn't necessarily seem so at first blush. to me that makes them somewhat inscrutable vis a vis arch vs. earnest

yeah, they're basically their own "remixers" live. Everything is amped up more than on record. I've seen them three or four times and it's always great.

You think One Life Stand is the MOST idiosyncratic, caulk? Sounds to me like by far their most warm, sincere and straightforward up to that point.

I think "Made in the Dark" is the weird, hard to get into one.

omigod the one that goes MEVSYOUVSMEVSYOUVSMEVSYOU is exactly what I mean about their cuteness

my statement might be based on my original perception of the band: as a DFA-esque dance group rather than a smoove pop group. Made in the Dark is pretty weird, but it fit my preconception of them better. One Life Stand had less of that, and that's probably why i was turned off by it

I'm not really feeling Don't Deny Your Love - there's a hell of a lot going on in that song and I'm not sure it really hangs together very well, especially in the first minute or so.

The rest of it is great. Especially enjoying Motion Sickness, Flutes and Now There Is Nothing at the moment. Obviously Flutes is about 80% Sky Was Pink DNA but it's lovely nonetheless. Now There Is Nothing is intriguing, like you could imagine Hot Chip taking late 60s psych-pop as a starting point and running somewhere much more interesting with it than most indie bands are able to manage.

Apart from Now There Is Nothing and How Do You Do, which are fine but not great, I unambiguously love this record. I've played it more than anything else this year. They were terrific headlining Lovebox too.

I'm starting to think this might be their best record. Everything has just fallen into place and I just can't find any weak tracks. Night & Day might be my least favourite song on there but it's still stuck in my head a lot of the time. Don't Deny Your Heart, Let Me Be Him, Motion Sickness and Flutes are all so amazing and really up there with their best songs.

Seeing them live next month for the first time, so excited.

Let Me Be Him is so great!! i had it on repeat for about two and a half hours last night while doing work in my apartment. such a sad refrain but sung with so much resolve-- the "ooooo oooo ooo oh oh oh haay oh" parts remind me of something too, like phil collins or peter gabriel?

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No way is it their best but I'll retract some remarks. Def their second best. The mid tempo things like "Always Been Your Love" and "Now There is Nothing" still annoy me.

"Motion Sickness" is some late eighties Colin Newman meets Eno masterpiece.

the FACT review of this was some bullshit

"motion sickness" is just amazing

not often I say this but I love the lyrics, esp the use of refrain

i think they did the soul stuff better at the end of "made in the dark" tho

jordan otm re: "motion sickness"

"night and day" is straight up garbage.

"let me be him" def my jam tho

now THAT song is gorgeous.

"night and day" sounded really slight to me as a single and i didn't have much interest in it, but the more i listen to it when i play the album the more i like it

it's still several notches below their best singles, but it's still pretty good

so is "Look At Where We Are"

xpost to gr8080

"Night and Day" might work if they didn't remind us that they love Zapp.

it's less them reminding us that they love zapp and more them reminding us that they're hot chip & they'll write an ironically bad lyric whenever they so please

"Let Me Be Him" and "Flutes" are so great, I could go w/ a whole album of epic jams like that

HC and Zapp both have a tendency to elide an ephemeral song by loading it with cute sound FX.

This is nowhere near as good as the last album, but I love the highs, like "Flutes" and "Motion Sickness."

"Night and Day" is like a mid-'90s Prince track.

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― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 10:36

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― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 June 2012 10:38

max to reality

however do we need him

No way is it their best but I'll retract some remarks. Def their second best.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

Which is your favourite? This and One Life Stand are very close for me.

i think they did the soul stuff better at the end of "made in the dark" tho

― J0rdan S

I always thought those were the weakest tracks on that album, I would have prefered it to be a ten track album and end with Wrestlers.

I think it might be their best, honestly. Maybe doesn't have the peaks of The Warning, but it's a really strong album from start to finish. Definitely better than the last two.

I listened to The Warning the other day and it's really all over the place and kind of shonky - the first track is a mess, it's all a bit primary school instrumentation in places, the highs are fantastic but its way inconsistent. Probably unique in Hot Chip albums in actually getting stronger towards the end though.

I think the new one is probably their most consistently good, not sure the peaks are quite as high but at least it doesn't slip to the most half-arsed lows of Made In The Dark.

Let Me Be Him is so killer. Everyone I know who's heard this album thinks that's the one. Like gr8080 I can't quite place the origin of those chants but the effect is so familiar. I'm also obsessed with the vocal loop on Flutes - apparently based on an old record of chanting monks.

Like gr8080 I can't quite place the origin of those chants but the effect is so familiar

Biko?

Despite a slushy first trask, The Warning is their best.

The chants in "Let Him Be Me" are a little bit Howard Jones, a little bit "Self-Control."

This song is a perfect example of how often people forget there are two singers in this band, and they each bring their own sensibility to their respective tracks.

The chants in "Let Him Be Me" are a little bit Howard Jones, a little bit "Self-Control."

I get a hint of a, uh, sincere take on "Tarzan Boy".

It's not the same sample but it reminded me a bit of Enfants (Chants) by Villalobos. Over The Sky Was Pink obviously.

ha yeah i immediately thought of Sky Was Pink when i heard that

oh you mentioned that days ago too

yeah, they've acknowledged it's a rip

they have? link?

re Let Me Be Him; yeah i can't recall an album track being so raved about and hyped up for years

the chants are this aren't they pretty much?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wLQNrr15sA

Reminds me a bit of the vocals in Wire's "Kidney Bingos."

can't find a direct quote but

Hot Chip's Joe Goddard tells Pitchfork that "Flutes" was one of the first songs that he and bandmate Alexis Taylor wrote for the new album. Its origin came from a sample of a two-note flute melody, its main inspiration from James Holden's remix of Nathan Fake's "The Sky Was Pink". The band chose the song as In Our Head's first song to be made public as a left turn for listeners: "I like it when bands come back with something that's fresh and unusual, you know?," Goddard said. "It's a more ambitious song than other things we've done in the past. I worked on it a lot to make sure it's constantly developing in an unusual way. I'm pleased with how it turned out."

re: Let Me Be Him/gr8080 - the "ooooo oooo ooo oh oh oh haay oh" parts remind me of something too, like phil collins or peter gabriel?

Feel like it may be something more recent like one of the songs on the Holy Ghost! album?

I thought of Phil Collins or Gabriel as well but tbh every second pop song that comes out these days seems to have an "ooooo oooo ooo oh oh oh haay oh" type chorus so it could be anything.

It's a bit like a Coldplay chant if we're being brutally honest, and nothing wrong with that.

In a post Arcade Fire world, every song has a wordless "ooooooh" or two on it.

Hacky Red One-type pop producers aiming for a stadium anthem with terrace chant crossover on every single record probably has a hand in that too.

And yet despite that Hot Chip's sounds entirely fresh and endearing and thrilling to me.

No doubt because the occasion wordless "ooooh" is hardly the only hook each respective song has to offer.

The synthy bits in "Flutes" initially reminded me of Booka Shade, but yeah, I can definitely see "The Sky Was Pink" as an overall inspiration.

something about these guys has always bugged me, never really loved them, but i like this album! esp the first few songs

i tried getting into this but the vocals kill it for me, pass

Always have that problem with Wet Chip, why guys why

thats always been my ish but it isnt bothering me too much now

haha im glad i read that about flutes cuz otherwise i would have really been bugged by what it reminded me of

now i'm thinking that the "ooooo oooo ooo oh oh oh haay oh" part reminds me of a song from some commercial? like for a car or some foreign country's tourism ad?

some of Turner's high notes still irritate me, yes

this is pretty good you know

never really given these guys the time of day tbh

This is a pretty neat album. Only place the singing got to me was "Look At Where We Are."

do the rest of them do anything much? i haven't had any interest in them for the past few years but these links to let me be him and motion sickness have got me interested again. Tip!

do the rest of them do anything much?

The rest of the band? Everyone swaps instruments a lot. One guy used to do double duty in LCD Soundsystem. There are some songs (live) where pretty much everyone is playing a guitar or something, and other songs where everyone is playing synths.

There are loads of nice touches throughout this - I'm all about the guitar solo and the disembodied girl's voice over the final track at the moment.

Also is the "I don't play no gabba" dude during Night And Day supposed to sound like Tricky?

amazed that this is gaining such traction - the production is improved in places but they're still as awful at ballads as ever and his voice is WORSE than ever. found it a real chore to listen to.

Hah, I was thinking that a proper R&B singer could have made a hit out of 'Look At Where We Are'.

(I mean as a cover, not just singing over the same backing)

If an R&B singer who wasn't The Weeknd or Frank Ocean or Beyoncé covered it, it would be entirely ignored by the entire world.

no way, ppl love that shit

remember when solange covered the dirty projectors

I could imagine Brandy singing it. I agree it's a good song let down by his voice but when I had it on in the car my daughter, who ignored the rest of the album, said "I love this song. It's beautiful." So maybe the reedy slow jams are for the 5-year-old girl market.

holy shit, i love "let me be him". it's very moving.

enjoying their NPR live streaming gig. "Ready for the Floor" -> "Everywhere" pretty great.

Ending with "Let Me Be Him".

killed it on Fallon

The sound mix wasn't doing them any favors, but energetic nerds are always fun to watch.

Up here - another new drummer?! (no questo)

jesus lex stay out of this thread if all you're gonna do is complain about the same shit you always complain about re: hot chip

They had to recruit this guy to play drums for the U.S. dates. Current drummer had visa trouble and couldn't come over.

pretty good at Pitchfork but the sound was a bit...muffled? I don't know.

jesus lex stay out of this thread if all you're gonna do is complain about the same shit you always complain about re: hot chip

― heiswagger (rennavate)

This is what he does. I was reading an old Robyn thread the other day and every other post was him telling everyone how much he can't stand her. This was going back to 2005 and five years later he's posting the same old shit, I can't believe he doesn't get bored of it.

Finally got to see them in Minnesota last week. They were great but the set seemed so short. Looking at the other recent setlists it seems they had to cut Hand Me Down Your Love and Let Me Be Him. Pretty gutted they didn't do Motion Sickness either as that has become my favourite on the new album.

Just saw the other day Look at Where we are is the next single. It's a great song but surely Don't Deny Your Heart is the obvious hit on the album?

Seeing them tomorrow night! So excited.

they were great at pitchfork, i thought

the new songs sounded really good but they haven't really stretched them out or messed around w/ them like the older songs.

SO AMAZING. Chromatics were way better live than on record (and I love them already), and Hot Chip deserved everything I've heard about their live show. They did a Fleetwood Mac cover, they dropped Prince's "If I Was Your Girlfriend" into "Look At Where We Are," and made some tweaks to "Night and Day" that I really wish had made it onto the album- generally streamlining it, also adding this kind of...rattling/scratching sound (like Dennis Bovell's matchbox on "Newtown") and an ooo-weeee-ooooooo theremin-sounding synth line on the chorus.

So "Let Me Be Him" is the best thing ever, amirite?

Let Me Be Him is indeed excellent but think I would put Motion Sickness, Don't Deny Your Heart and Flutes ahead of it.

So they've finally put out the obvious single from the new album. The video is quite brilliant and very bizarre.

http://youtu.be/Gf3bmQh8_dM

They're back.

http://dominorecordco.com/whymakesense/

This is fine but I don't love it. It's the album opener and it's big step down from Motion Sickness.

Can't wait to see them drop two songs and one album into our year-end polls, because tradition.

I rather like this track, btw.

Dud.

It's strange that they have this reputation of being a band that always places in the end of year polls. Two out of their five albums didn't make the lists.

alexis taylor's solo album could barely have been duller

this is a lot better than that

Another new song https://youtu.be/lfH5LmhvQQk

I heard the whole album last night, so it's either "out there" or will be soon. As someone who's always been mostly on the fence about Hot Chip (often with favorable inclinations), this is THEIR album. They finally got everything right.

Really? Very excited to hear hear you say that. I thought their last two albums were where they got everything right. Both a big step up from their earlier albums.

Going by these two songs it sounds like it's going to be quite a dark album.

Too many hears in that sentence obviously. I'm just exited.

i'm calling it now:

#57 on the top 77

I'm surprised at JF's enthusiasm. Listened to it a few times and promptly forgot about it. Nothing even gets close to the high points of the last two

Yeah I've heard mixed reports. I think it leaked last week or something.

Yeah it's definitely out there now.

It's really good and has lots of beautiful moments. Not quite as brilliant as the last two albums but very good all the way through. The two singles might be my least favourite songs on the album.

Maybe what you guys like about Hot Chip is what's kept me lukewarm. I really like this one though. OPINIONS!

i really like the name.. "hot chip". it's a good band name.

Need you Now sounds great on first listen, cool video too.

Very into the new album now. So many lovely little moments. The last minute of Our Love Is The Future is just so beautiful, one of the best things they've done. White Wine and Chicken has replaced Brothers as their corniest moment. I can't help but love it.

If One Life Stand was the kind of Hot Chip you wanted then this album will probably appeal to you.

http://pitchfork.com/news/59545-hot-chip-stream-new-album-why-make-sense/

Surprised how little attention Why Make Sense? got on here. Looks like they might not make the ILM albums list this year after all.

It's mostly pretty good! A few duds, as usual. The bookends are killer.

It's excellent, but in typical Hot Chip style, the running order could do with some attention. 'Separate' could easily be a highlight of the album, instead they bury it on a bonus EP, for example.

I listened to it once and haven't had the urge to go back.

Likewise. In fact, mid-listen I forgot that "In Our Heads" existed and went back to that album instead. "One Life Stand" is still my go-to, but neither the new one nor the last one are bad at all, so I'll be sure to give them more rotation. I did notice that Hot Chip doesn't seem to be touring as much, at least not outside the US festival circuit. Maybe if I'd seen them live more recently I'd be more in love with the newer stuff.

Massively underwhelmed on first listen but it gets a lot better, though still not great. I was really getting into it until I played In Our Heads again and realised what a step down it was.

Yeah I'm not too keen on this either. I thought "Huarache Lights" was a pretty weak single too.

Definitely a step down from the last two albums but still really enjoyable. I like every song on their but it could do with a few more big moments like Let Be He Him or Flutes. I think the Pitchfork review was about right when they said it's the fourth best Hot Chip album.

Huarache Lights, Started Right and the title track are the keepers for me. KP OTM about the lack of big moments though. It's all happening within a narrow bandwidth. And much though I love the band I've never quite come around to Alexis's voice but I love Joe's. In Our Heads had the perfect Alexis:Joe balance. This one doesn't.

Just read the Pitchfork review. Nails it.

It also moves towards a slightly sparser sound than the last record and that really doesn't do Alexis any favours.

It's weird to have a band where I love the songwriting and sound so much that I'm a fan despite disliking the lead singer (the voice, not the person).

Need You Know is a banger. Highlight of this one for me.

Now not Know

Love this band, but still haven't given the latest album much time, in no small part because seeing the Need You Now name immediately makes me think of the Cut Copy song.

No, if anything it sounds like Moby being remixed by Delorean. Listen to it. Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfH5LmhvQQk

Oh, I've heard it, just haven't really gone back to the album. I'd still rather listen to Cut Copy's "Need You Now."

I still really like the album but I was obsessed with One Life Stand and In Our Heads when they came out and it just hasn't been the same this time round. It needs a few more Flutes/Let Me Be Him/Don't Deny Your Heart moments.

lol i already get cut copy and hot chip confused as it is, this is just going to make it worse

like just now i was like "wtf is moka talking about, 'need you now' is like 4 years old"

Nobody interested in the Joe Goddard album? Last Hot Chip album was a bit disappointing, but this is up there with with One Life Stand in the Hot Chip canon.

i just put this on out of curiosity and i love it

Yeah it's great, expanding the roster of singers was a very smart move.

Goddard's "Electric Lines" is great, hope it doesn't get totally lost/ignored in the infinite shuffle.

Definitely one of my most listened to albums of the year so far

After the high of Goddard's album, Alexis Taylor's new one is something of a disappointment.

Back to being classic based on first listen, lush second summer of love vibe to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJh_tYip-ns

There’s a rather clever narrative video too, but doesn’t foreground the track, though will be the one to get attention.*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOnMZALLQPk

*see it worked

That's a great video, as good as "I Feel Better."

I should relisten to "Why Make Sense," I don't remember a thing about it, though Joe Goddard's last album was great.

I saw Hot Chip at Glastonbury after Why Make Sense came out. IIRC they didn't play a single song from it.

I could have sworn the last couple of times through town here they only played festivals, so maybe they have a sequenced "hits" set?

WMS' title track is one of their best songs imho

My exceptions were weirdly low for the new album considering they were one of my favourite bands going during the One Life Stand/In Our Heads eras, but I'm really enjoying it. The second half in particular is so strong.

Is it just me or do the first two songs have pretty much the same vocal melody in the chorus?

1) Thank you for reminding me that this is now out.
2) I had no idea that Philippe Zdar worked on it, RIP.

okay, at least on this day I love this album so much I played it a second time right after I played it the first time.

its hard to think of a band that more desperately needs to release a live album

or, for that matter, a band whose recorded output gives no real indication of how great they are as a live act.

they did a live album nine years ago:

http://bpm-sfx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/livealexandrapalace1011-840x560.jpg

(and an itunes-only live EP in 2008)

agree that they should have two live albums a year though

okay, at least on this day I love this album so much I played it a second time right after I played it the first time.

― Josh in Chicago

Yeah, I've played this album three times today and it's such a delight. Those last four songs are really doing it for me, especially Why Does My Mind.

I see they’ve also joined ranks with lcd in having godawful album art.

I don't think they've ever had really great artwork, but yes this is a particular low point for them.

Coming On Strong and The Warning are fine, they have a good ~brand identity~ that fits the band's semi-tentative sound at the time. The no-copy-the-same-colour gag on the last one was fun, or would have been in record shops (the bonus EP only came if you bought direct from EMI in Australia). The new one is atrocious.

Surprising how poor a lot of their artwork is when you look at their videos. They clearly have a visual sense but is best realised in a performative medium.

watching a live session rn and the front half of the band are wearing suits made out of the album art, Split Enz-style

Alexis' hair is even dyed to match it

I find this album kind of boring, tbqh

'Positive' and 'Why Does My Mind' are the highlights for me.

Another great video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24XoV5kSkks

Ah, that's so great. People really slept on how great the new album is.

The Joe Goddard/Amy Douglas side project Hard Feelings' album is smart, sassy dance pop. Recommended for anyone missing Jessie Ware or Roisin Murphy.

New one is really great, especially the title track. Seems like a lot of people have fallen off with these guys, but I think they're still putting out some really great records.

Case in point: love this group but did not know they had a new record. But now I do!

The new album's good!

I need to spend more time with the new one. It feels like they peaked with One Life Stand and In Our Heads, but those last two albums were really good. They're still yet to put out a bad album.

first posted this on the Cup Copy thread by mistake

I played the new album Feaksout/Release over the weekend and it was decent. Not really a fan of the lead single but liked the album. First time have checked out something new by them and will revisit at some point this year.