Hot Chip - C/D?

"gabriel" is kind of unexpectedly amazing O_O

― i asked for "HALF" a glass of wine, because i am TEMPERENT (lex pretend), Friday, 9 September 2011 11:11 (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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.

― Matt DC, Friday, 9 September 2011 11:53 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

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

― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 9 September 2011 11:48 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

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.