Hot Chip - C/D?

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this is proto dud

― Joris (rizzx), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i got tired of the flipflopping clever/irreverent then tender/sincere lyrics. liked the music and voices a lot. and feel they'll improve with age. a good start but not C or D.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Classic summer album. Playboy is an excellent driving song:

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

― pinder (pinder), Thursday, 28 July 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

i love "shining escalade"!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 28 July 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

"sexual chocolate"!!

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 28 July 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

new EP "barbarian" is more excellent stuff from hot chip. 4 songs.

"no fit state" is the high point.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

everything i've heard by this lot has been ace so far.

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.

― piscesboy, Monday, 19 December 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

they have two albums and a new ep.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 19 December 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I was totally going to start a "Hot Chip suck" thread but it turns out nobody really cares about them. I like the Beta Band and Junior Boys, so you think this would work but it doesn't. It fucking sucks. Boring.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 15 January 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Into my slsk queue it goes

― disco violence (disco violence), Monday, 16 January 2006 00:22 (twenty years ago)

totally agreed Zwan. I don't get it either. Piffle. Drivel. Slop. putrid excrement smeared on fried bread.

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Monday, 16 January 2006 01:34 (twenty years ago)

i like it quite a lot

― nervous (cochere), Monday, 16 January 2006 01:36 (twenty years ago)

this record is terrible. do we really need a breathy, "sincere" ween?

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Monday, 16 January 2006 02:36 (twenty years ago)

millions of post-grads etc.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 16 January 2006 02:49 (twenty years ago)

"etc." = can't be wrong?

― disco violence (disco violence), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:29 (twenty years ago)

Oh man. Wait. Does it get worse after the first two tracks? 'Cause if that's the case, for possibly the first time ever, ILM's hatred isn't being hyperbolic enough.

― disco violence (disco violence), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:31 (twenty years ago)

This article makes them sound better than they are, I'm thinking.

― disco violence (disco violence), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:42 (twenty years ago)

i'm not wild about Coming on Strong, but "Over and Over" is the fucking shit and i bet the DFA produced album is great. their latest live shows were supposedly great

― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Monday, 16 January 2006 05:47 (twenty years ago)

This album is soooo bad... perhaps worse than The Eagles Of Death Metal.

― Dom iNut (donut), Monday, 16 January 2006 06:34 (twenty years ago)

the live show (back during cmj) was AWFUL, i left after 3 songs. a whole bunch of messy crap soul whining/cowbell banging singer wearing sunglasses/unattractive man wanking on some kind of microkorg-nord lead atrocity.

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

― bell labs (bell_labs), Monday, 16 January 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)

I thought they weren't bad live. It's when I checked out the album that i was unimpressed.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 16 January 2006 19:18 (twenty years ago)

the only track of theirs that I really like is "just like we (breakdown)" .... probably because it's sincere in its sappiness ... the joke factor of their other stuff turns me off.

― Renard (Renard), Monday, 16 January 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Don't be mean to Hot Chip, you guys!

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:07 (twenty years ago)

haha uh I like this a lot

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:15 (twenty years ago)

"etc." = can't be wrong?

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

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:18 (twenty years ago)

I quite like Hot Chip. Over and Over was one of my favourite songs of the latter part of 2005.

― klee (klee), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

what record are you all on about?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:48 (twenty years ago)

hot chip, "coming on strong"

do you like it?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

i've not heard it - has it been reissued? they were fkn great when i saw them live.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 13:17 (twenty years ago)

DFA / Astralwerks just put it out in the U.S.

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

― Renard (Renard), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:14 (twenty years ago)

I have a Hot Chip cdr release from over 3 years ago. Can I sell it for hundreds of pounds?

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

It's sad that Hot Chip gets full distribution, but Clor still can't get a U.S. deal with any label...(although maybe they've turned down offers from smaller U.S. labels as far as I know..)

― Dom iNut (donut), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:26 (twenty years ago)

it's all about the DFA remix of "Just Like We (Breakdown)" which no doubt should get x-posted to that sad techno thread.

― imbidimts, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Classic for getting the NME to embarrass themselves even more than usual by coining the term "slapcore."

― telephone thing, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

"The Warning" has leaked </Orson>

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 05:30 (twenty years ago)

i was surprised at some of the hatred for this group, but i haven't heard any of the older material. i figured this would be something the ILMassive would love. "Just like We (Breakdown)" & "No Fit State" are really standing out so far.

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 05:32 (twenty years ago)

as i said before, "no fit state" is huge

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 05:58 (twenty years ago)

where did it leak to? it's not on oink
and i'm excited

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 06:01 (twenty years ago)

i figured cutty would like it.

is this gonna be on DFA?

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 06:03 (twenty years ago)

meaning, aren't there some people that work for DFA on this board. i'm guilty of stealing, but i'd rather not be guilty of spreading

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 06:04 (twenty years ago)

you can download the new album on slsk...been listening to it all day. i'm really digging Boy From School and Colours, though the whole album is pretty consistently good.

― echodex (echodex), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 06:48 (twenty years ago)

i'm really surprised that the original of "Just like We (Breakdown)" is more interesting than the DFA remix. looses all the rhythmic complexity.

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 06:51 (twenty years ago)

The video for Over And Over makes me really not like them, though. the song definitely treads into the Beta Band/Ween territory. is this what all british people are like?

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 07:08 (twenty years ago)

Great new album. Miles above Coming on Strong and I liked that one.

― wmlynch (wlynch), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 07:42 (twenty years ago)

the new remix 12 is brilliant, naum gabo and justus really doing great.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)

I like the video of 'Over And Over', and the song itself is much better than the whole career of the Junior Boys.

― zeus (zeus), Monday, 6 March 2006 10:38 (twenty years ago)

... though the first Hot Chip album was more dud, than classic.

― zeus (zeus), Monday, 6 March 2006 10:39 (twenty years ago)

tracklisting for 'the warning'? couldn't find the other thread searching on 'chip' and 'warning'

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

this is what i have:

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

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

saw em this weekend at a live instore. was really impressed. they had all indie-nerd steretypes covered. Terry from Just One of the Guys, Alan Cumming, Napoleon Dynamite (i couldn't see the two other guys).

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

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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.

― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 26 July 2015 14:33 (ten years ago)

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

― D-30 (gr8080), Monday, 27 July 2015 14:14 (ten years ago)

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

― D-30 (gr8080), Monday, 27 July 2015 14:15 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

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.

― Dan Worsley, Monday, 24 April 2017 14:29 (nine years ago)

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

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 24 April 2017 14:34 (nine years ago)

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

― Matt DC, Monday, 24 April 2017 15:41 (nine years ago)

four months pass...

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

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:35 (eight years ago)

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

― groovypanda, Monday, 4 September 2017 07:50 (eight years ago)

eight months pass...

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

― groovypanda, Friday, 4 May 2018 10:15 (eight years ago)

eleven months pass...

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

― Dan Worsley, Friday, 5 April 2019 07:40 (seven years ago)

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

― Dan Worsley, Friday, 5 April 2019 07:43 (seven years ago)

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.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2019 11:43 (seven years ago)

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

― Matt DC, Friday, 5 April 2019 11:47 (seven years ago)

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

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 April 2019 11:57 (seven years ago)

WMS' title track is one of their best songs imho

― Simon H., Friday, 5 April 2019 12:07 (seven years ago)

two months pass...

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.

― kitchen person, Saturday, 22 June 2019 04:50 (six years ago)

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

― Matt DC, Saturday, 22 June 2019 08:39 (six years ago)

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

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 June 2019 12:46 (six years ago)

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, Saturday, 22 June 2019 15:37 (six years ago)

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

― ufo, Saturday, 22 June 2019 15:55 (six years ago)

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

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 22 June 2019 16:17 (six years ago)

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

― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Saturday, 22 June 2019 19:24 (six years ago)

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.

― kitchen person, Sunday, 23 June 2019 01:27 (six years ago)

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

― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Sunday, 23 June 2019 13:49 (six years ago)

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

― kitchen person, Sunday, 23 June 2019 14:53 (six years ago)

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.

― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Sunday, 23 June 2019 21:04 (six years ago)

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.

― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 23 June 2019 21:22 (six years ago)

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

― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Monday, 24 June 2019 20:30 (six years ago)

I find this album kind of boring, tbqh

― jaymc, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 03:29 (six years ago)

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

― KevRus, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:54 (six years ago)

two months pass...

Another great video

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

― groovypanda, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 11:00 (six years ago)

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

― kitchen person, Wednesday, 4 September 2019 13:39 (six years ago)

two years pass...

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

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 6 November 2021 14:58 (four years ago)

ten months pass...

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.

― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 September 2022 15:13 (three years ago)

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

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 September 2022 15:16 (three years ago)

The new album's good!

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 September 2022 16:13 (three years ago)

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.

― kitchen person, Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:49 (three years ago)

two weeks pass...

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.

― Bee OK, Monday, 3 October 2022 18:50 (three years ago)

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