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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
If there’s one thing you can bet your house on in 2010, it’s that Hot Chip are going to be massive…again. Following on from ‘Coming on Strong’, ‘The Warning’ and ‘Made in the Dark’ comes ‘One Life Stand‘, an album that, if the two leaked tracks are anything to go by, promises to be their best yet.
Hot Chip – One Life Stand (MySpace Exclusive)
Hot Chip | MySpace Music Videos
Both tracks are sumptuously built on a solid base of electronic funk, working their way along before bursting into life with vocals to chill your bones and bump your geese. It’s perhaps Hot Chip’s ability to surprise and improvise that makes them so compelling, drawing you in with every extra listen.
‘Don’t Dance’ is another prime example of the way they can take a simple and quirky piece of music and make it burst into life with tones, rhythms, stabs and vocals that mesh together in such a way that you can’t imagine they were ever supposed to sound any different.
Alongside the regular band members, Hot Chip collaborated on several of the album tracks for ‘One Life Stand’ with the drummer Charles Hayward from This Heat and Camberwell Now, the Trinidadian steel pan player Fimber Bravo and Leo Taylor, drummer from The Invisible, who are also great…check out ‘Constant‘. The mainstays and current line up includes Owen Clarke, Felix Martin, Al Doyle, the distinctive voice of Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard. Joe has recently released a solo project called ‘Harvest‘. We really liked it, especially the arpegiatted loop in ‘Apple Bobbing’, so much so that we decided to do our own version…hope you like it…
Joe Goddard – Apple Bobbing (Frogs in Socks Snap Apple Remix) by FrogsInSocks
One Life Stand will be released on February 1st 2010, and a new world tour has been announced…I will most definitely be at the party in Manchester in February.
Oli
