Hot Chip - C/D?

"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.

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.

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?

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

"please leave our over-hyped bands alone!"

Mencap OTM. also, max, claiming that they are indie kids gone dance, probably says more about you than them. they gleefully sent up this attitude in "down with prince".

I don't have any particular feelings either way about this band FWIW

i am a dance kid that now listens to a bit of everything. (like everybody these days, natch)

but not hot chip!

The 30 seconds after the studio dude comes in on 'Shake a fist' are probably my favourite musical moment of the year.

http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2191611,00.html

every remix, every dj set, practically every song (bar the erol rmx and over & over), every zany gig with them lined up in a self-conscious row by these guys is utter utter shit. the ultimate one-hit wonder who lucked into some bizarro world of cool by virtue of being on dfa

I kinda wish they'd stick to the slow stuff - it suits them so much better than the clever-clogs dance shit. The title track of 'Made In The Dark' is stunning.

Out at the Pictures, song of the year, right?

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

agreed! i picked up Made in the Dark yesterday (promo copy, full artwork etc.) and it's fantastic. i liked the previous two records in spots, and not so much in others. but this is their best work, by far. very very good.

i havn't even heard it yet but this shit is going to be huge around here

made in the dark is a MASSIVE album. crikey.

fuck these guys

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)