Hot Chip Unveil New Single

Hot Chip have revealed a new one-off single, Dark And Stormy, for release on 22nd July. You can have a listen here. It follows their 2012 album In Our Heads.

Best Of 2012: #18

#18 - Hot Chip - In Our Heads

I'll admit to not being the biggest Hot Chip fan in the world; but I do like to listen to their output occasionally. This album is quirky in all the right places, none more so than the baffling first single Night And Day (the bridge rhymes Abba, jibber jabber, Macca and Aiya Napa for heaven's sake!). Slightly different from your average pop songs! All the songs are at least four minutes long, and yet they don't get old. The biggest ones are Flutes, which is a decent chill-out tune, and Let Me Be Him - which is an absolutely incredible song. Hitting almost eight minutes, the song is dark, slow and sad to start with, slowly building up, but seeming fairly middle-of-the-road... and then BOOM! EPIC CHORUS! The goosebumps kick in with the "oh-oh-oh-heeeey-oh"s... After another round of verse and chorus, we're treated to this atmospheric closing as vocals float over the top. If nothing else, the album is worth listening to just to get to that song.

RECOMMEND: Motion Sickness, Night And Day, Let Me Be Him
LOW POINTS: Look At Where We Are, Now There Is Nothing

Hear In Our Heads Now

You can now hear Hot Chip's fifth album, In Our Heads, in full, if you are in the UK. It is available for streaming here. The album is due for release on 11th June, one week from now.

New Hot Chip Track On Radio Tonight

A new Hot Chip song, Night And Day, will be Zane Lowe's Hottest Record In The World on his Radio 1 show tonight at 19.30 BST. The song is the first 'proper' single from their upcoming fifth album, In Our Heads, due out June 11th, and follows Flutes, which was released to the internet last month.

Hot Chip - In Our Heads

Artwork


Tracklist
01. Motion Sickness
02. How Do You Do
03. Don't Deny Your Heart
04. Look At Where We Are
05. These Chains
06. Night And Day
07. Flutes
08. Now There Is Nothing
09. Ends Of The Earth
10. Let Me Be Him
11. Always Been Your Love

The album will be released on June 11th.

Best Of 2010 - #21

Hot Chip - One Life Stand



I have quite a few Hot Chip songs in my music collection, but not an album, so I decided to listen to this one, but it didn't really get to me as much as I'd hoped. I enjoyed the first single of the same name as the album (One Life Stand), and on getting the album, the first three tracks on it were equally as good.

But after One Life Stand, the album goes downhill. Tracks five and six, Brothers and Slush, sound slightly ridiculous (particularly the opening vocal on the latter) but I still liked them, but the others just were simply uninteresting. Penultimate song Keep Quiet is the only one I liked out of the last four, but it remains one of the worst on the album.

Think I'll stick to just listening to their best songs rather than their albums.

SCORE


Previous albums: Coming On Strong (no review), The Warning (no review), Made In The Dark (no review)