- Label
- EMI
- Release date
- 2nd February 2010
- Genre
- Pop
- Buy this album
- Order CD
A great club album to play with your feet up.
What do you do when your clubbing days are behind you and you have stopped popping pills on all-night benders but you still love the music that was your soundtrack? You make a warm, wise album that draws on your techno-fuelled wild days but is perfect for home listening.
Lovable geeks in the disco, Hot Chip have long been nearly men of British pop, but their fourth album of hyperactive, loved-up dance rhythms and urgent mental promptings is their best effort yet at synthesizing the visceral and the cerebral, the hedonistic and the quietly intimate.
The title track hymns the delights of monogamous commitment, Thieves In The Night recalls New Order at their most joyously melancholic, and Alexis Taylor’s halting falsetto is a thing of beauty throughout as the knowing electronic rhythms throb like a joyous pulse.
It’s the consummate album they always threatened to make – Hot Chip have grown into their music and into themselves.
More to try:
New Order: Technique
Doves: Some Cities
Delphic: Acolyte
