Hot Chip - C/D?

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.