Hot Chip - C/D?

Has this leaked?

Yep it's leaked, i agree about the slow stuff being better too. The background whistles in "We're Looking For A Lot of Love" are very nice

i listened to this once on the drive down during xmas. i thought it was terrible. the wife who's a huge fan.. thought it was terrible.

i've only heard a couple tracks from this band ever, most of which i wasn't into, but that 'shake a fist' track is good.

fuck these guys
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they certainly do inspire a great deal of ire, but it seems to be all based on their "impurity" and the fact that a lot of their fans seem to be obnoxious buttheads

I liked/like "Boy From School" quite a bit, for one, but the tracks that I've heard from the new record sound like inferior OMD songs.

They're actually pretty good, even if their new record suffers from some questionable sequencing. Their problem, listener-wise, is that they touch on a number of genres whose fans don't like each other very much.

blah-di-blah...
Anyway, I love most of the record and repeated listening pays off. I love how "Hold On" has got the feel & energy of Talking Heads ca. Stop Making Sense, including Byrne-guitar-chops - can't wait to see/hear that one performed live.

This sounded really good on the first listen. The 'getting everything wrong in a good way' moments outweigh the 'getting everything wrong full stop' moments this time. I like the stadium rock guitar at the beginning of One Pure Thought. Not sure about Bendable Poseable though.

Also, they're much better at beats this time.

i wonder what their ep on victory garden is now worth

wish i'd bought it

Boring, and I liked the first two.

i don't like Ready For The Floor much - 'boring' and 'OMD' pretty much nail it!

Ready For The Floor certainly doesn't sound good in a club in the way that Over and Over did.

Not really feeling this so far - sounds to me like the syndrome of "they were great until they thought they could do it" once again.

no, it wouldn't sound good in a club. it's music for jogging.
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Over and Over didn't sound particularly good in clubs either.

Actually I may be alone in thinking that Over & Over is kind of overrated.

It's nowhere near the best song on The Warning. (Look After Me is, btw)

I think it's a terrific record, though it seems like the two wings of their writing - Fisher-Price Danja Hands and Putney Delta blues ballads - are getting ever further apart... something the sequencing rather exacerbates. Good as it is, I'm not sure there's anything as good as 'Boy from school', which felt like a perfect midpoint between the two...

"Over & Over"'s a fine record but not really one for the clubs; the original mix is (for those purposes) awkwardly non-committal.

I danced to it a lot!

yeah, me too. and still prefer it to the remixes personally.

i probably wouldn't dance to it now tho thanks to culture show

I just realized my problem with Made in the Dark: it should end at "Wrestlers" (which sounds uncannily like Hot Shots II-era Beta Band) and be a flawless 44-minute record, but instead it's a lopsided 55-minute one.

Still one of the better recs so far this year.

also "Out at the Pictures" should go on longer, it's amazing.

is that the first song? i like that.

i hate hate hate the spoken interlude in shake a fist.

same. it reminds me of something off ninja tunes

It's Todd Rundgren! I love that part.

You'd be much better off buying Something/Anything? and have done with it.

i realise it's todd rundgren! it's just that whole let's interrupt the song + have someone speaking like 'this is an audio test, now let's try the right channel' etc etc thing that bugs me (and reminds me of ninja tune)

Really I'm just getting tired of record collection pop.

Admittedly Todd pretty much fired the starting pistol for record collection pop but he used his sources as inspiration rather than crutches.

This is my sticking point with the whole critical thing about oh isn't it so much better these days, all music ever made is freely available on t'internet and kids can pick n' mix and come up with all sorts of Heston Blumenthal-esque wacky fusions it's never been healthier.

But where's the backstory, the emotion, the purpose? Since the likes of Hot Chip are not Bill Burroughs they can't rely on the accidental effects of cut and paste in themselves (and in any case Burroughs never tried to pluck anything from thin air). All right, they've bought or downloaded some old Todd records. So have I. So what?

Have you written a song as catchy as "Shake a Fist"?

(Admittedly, that's a pretty strawman response to your post, but seriously - reducing their act to "they've bought or downloaded some old Todd records" is pretty ridiculous. I hear plenty of emotion and purpose. I mean, all you've really got here is "I don't care for their music," right?)

The last one was patchy but very good in places, SS. As was their first album.

But I don't see any aesthetic or emotional purpose in interrupting one of the better songs on this record to indulge their Vinyl Vultures fantasy and since it has zero relevance to the rest of the song and is not sufficiently amusing or startling for that not to matter then I question its inclusion.

Recommended listening: the "Titanic" middle part of "Oops...I Did It Again" and the Shortwave Set album.

i had no idea that was todd rundgren!

I like it better than the previous ones. Still feels it's too sophisticated and too clever, and perhaps next time they will strike the right balance. In that case they will deliver a classic.

The worst thing about the Rundgren bit is that they're jacking someone else's joke! Why didn't they just record they're own bit like that?

Crap Kraft Dinner remains their best song.

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bcuz you would have ripped them for biting rundgren

New song (or newish, was apparently given out to the first whatever number of people at one of the pre-album concerts) "Too Deep" on iTunes now.

Both tracks from that 7" are probably still here.

glad 'One Pure Thought' is the next single - best track on the album

I kinda really like this band. Not sure what's holding me back from full embrace. The songs are so good, maybe it's the delivery. Maybe they're not fully embracing me!

do like the new album but its def their most commercial/most 80s.

They covered New Order's "Temptation" at Coachella.

do we really need a breathy, "sincere" ween?
When they sound this good, fuck yeah!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ0zYMeox0s&feature=related

Good clip.

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they've been doing that for a while now - they did the same "No Fit State" -> "Temptation" trick a year ago. it's still awesome as hell, though.