Hot Chip - C/D?

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.

max to thread.

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

max to life

― 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