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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)

The guy on the right looks like Vinnie Jones!

― T/S: Pinks/Oki Dog/Scoobys/Tail o' the Pup (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

(of the stage; when they play live)

― T/S: Pinks/Oki Dog/Scoobys/Tail o' the Pup (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

jaxon referencing terry from just one of the guys just made my day.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm starting to think that the only Hot Chip tracks that really do it for me are No Fit State, The DFA's remix of Just Like We (Break Down), and Over and Over. It seems like the more I listen to other tracks from The Warning and Coming On Strong the less I like them. I really enjoyed those tracks live, but at home they put me to sleep more or less. So aside from the big 3 mentioned above, I'm apathetic...but maybe time will tell.

― Chantilly Bass (ChantillyBass), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:41 (twenty years ago)

it's a classic conundrum - great live band, dud on record.

― hearts, Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

chantilly, i know what you mean. while i was all gushing about their new 'un on the other thread, my enthusiasm for the record has steadily dwindled and now i often concede, letting my eager skip finger goes blang blauh several times.

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.)

― {apal moon, Thursday, 9 March 2006 01:15 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

free show at NYC's South St Seaport on Friday.

http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_things_to_do/upcoming_events/events.php?id=30357

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

mmm... anyone who hasn't seen them live or seen them earlier when they were a 3-piece, check that out...

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.

― Mallory L . O'Donnell (That Bitch Camille), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

i really didnt like their first album, but this one basically roolz.

― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I thought this was the thread where I was clowned for saying this sounded like dance music with an 'indie filter.' But its not. Nonetheless, "20-inch rims with the chrome now/ Blazin' out Yo La Tengo." http://www.smileyarena.com/emoticons/Invision/Blue_Fade/barf.gif

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.slate.com/id/2146447/

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

i have listened the shit out of the Warning this summer.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

yeah definitely my favorite album of the year. i'm going to be at that seaport show too, duh, they rocked it when i saw them at cmj last year (before having heard any recorded output). plus since i'm reppin astralwerks for the summer its like a responsibility

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

― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

This and Destroyer's Rubies are becoming my summer albums.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

deej, Hot Chip - The Warning

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

"over and over" has some good moments, like the synth freakout (freakout maybe too strong a word, but it's cool), but then not too long after it they start singing again and it's like, if you're talking about repetition and making me think about the wonderous qualities thereof, i think i'd rather put on a house/techno/whatever dj mix where the music won't get interrupted every 4 or 5 minutes. i guess that's why i don't appreciate indietronica or whatever it's called

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

"But Hot Chip's primary passion is contemporary rap and R&B."

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?

― Gavin (Gavin), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

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.

― Mallory L . O'Donnell (That Bitch Camille), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

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

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.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

BUMP for tonight's Seaport show (hope the rainstorms are done)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 August 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

They were fun; I left before the encore, tho.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 5 August 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

encore was if i remember correctly 'down with prince' off the first record

― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 6 August 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

There's sod all US hip hop production on the new record anyway... more 2step garage ("The Warning", Hardcore ("Careful") soul("Look After Me"), dance rock (a la DFA- "Over and Over") maybe a hint of R'n'B... (Just Like we Breakdown") electro-funk... ("Arrest Yourself")....

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

That Seaport show was a blast. They were much better live than I was expecting. I also left before the encore, but that's mainly because we were tired and hungry.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

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

― Alba, Sunday, 16 September 2007 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

how do i eat hot chip

― King Boy Pato, Sunday, 16 September 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

carefully

― Telephone thing, Sunday, 16 September 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

kraftwerk remixes too?!

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

― haitch, Sunday, 16 September 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

the remix of 'La Forme' is aight

― blueski, Sunday, 16 September 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

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

― da croupier, Sunday, 16 September 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

"Shake a Fist" is totally awesome.

― Ben Boyerrr, Sunday, 16 September 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

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

― ^@^, Sunday, 16 September 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

thought the kraftwerk covers were meh

― jaxon, Sunday, 16 September 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

"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)!

― jamescobo, Monday, 17 September 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

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

― Roz, Friday, 28 September 2007 09:26 (eighteen years ago)

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

― Roz, Friday, 28 September 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

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.

― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

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?

― DJ Mencap, Friday, 28 September 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

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

― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

"please leave our over-hyped bands alone!"

― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

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