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Opening their hearts and streamlining their sound at the same time, Hot Chip make their most unabashed and colourful record, and maybe their best. As good as One Life Stand is, it trashes a beautiful theory I had. You see, for their first three albums, Hot Chip's recorded output bore an uncanny correspondence to New Order's. Coming on Strong and Movement would both prove to be slightly underwhelming, somewhat misleading preludes to far more colourful and satisfying careers, while The Warning and Power, Corruption & Lies became the closest thing each band has to a consensus classic album by...

Hot Chip are easily one of the coolest electro-pop bands out there. This quintet from London are experts at crafting music with catchy guitar riffs and quirky electronic beats. In their new single " One Life Stand " this order hasn't changed at all. They still maintain everything about their older music that makes it fun loving, danceable and electronically charged. What I like is that they always manage to inject a subtle hint of 80's electronic dance music, while still maintaining their indie roots. It could be their smooth accelerated bass lines, Alexis Taylor's croon or maybe just the all around danceability of their music. But it [...]

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So, in yet another of my hopelessly behind-the-times posts , those two darlings of the MP3BlogOSphere, Hot Chip ( From Putney! ) and Vampire Weekend (Not From Putney!) have new songs out, as musical outriders to their new albums which will come tearing over the horizon at some point in the New Year. First off, the new Hot Chip song "Take It In" sounds somewhat like Cabaret Voltaire before exploding into a happy, poppy, none-more-shiny chorus, quite at odds with the Sound Of 80's Sheffield verse. I like it. [...]

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