Hot Chip - C/D?

is this gonna be on DFA?

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

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.)

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

how do i eat hot chip

carefully

kraftwerk remixes too?!

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

the remix of 'La Forme' is aight

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

"Shake a Fist" is totally awesome.

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

thought the kraftwerk covers were meh

"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)!

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

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

I need to spend more time with the new one. It feels like they peaked with One Life Stand and In Our Heads, but those last two albums were really good. They're still yet to put out a bad album.

first posted this on the Cup Copy thread by mistake

I played the new album Feaksout/Release over the weekend and it was decent. Not really a fan of the lead single but liked the album. First time have checked out something new by them and will revisit at some point this year.