Author: Hot Chip

Format: Import

Release Date: 05-02-2008

Details: Product Description Limited edition two disc (CD + DVD) pressing of the 2008 album from the British Electronic act featuring a bonus DVD that features five live performances filmed in Germany and the UK. Recorded and self-produced in their home London studio base and charts their ever growing sonic ascendance into one of the UK's most original and like/loveable bands. Made In The Dark is the definitive Hot Chip record and could have been made by no other band. It would probably be easiest to say that the album is faster and rockier than The Warning, but that is only beginning to scratch the service. Within its 13 tracks there is both rhythmical chaos (Shake A Fist', 'Bendable Poseable'), soulful introspection (We're Looking For A Lot Of Love', the title track and 'In The Privacy Of Our Love') and even contemporary widescreen Pop ('Ready For The Floor', 'One Pure Thought'). The songs are propulsive, repetitive, rhythmical, methodical, wonky, intimate, beautiful and uniquely Hot Chip. Amazon.ca If Daft Punk and Flight of the Concords collaborated on the soundtrack to a fabulous movie about wrestling, such an effort might approach Hot Chip's sublime and goofy Made in the Dark. This British five-piece's third album is its most ridiculous and excessive; it's also their best thus far. Some really weird things go on here: nu-rave numbers segue into lovely ballads with the tempi of cough syrup, then into bizarre yet poppy feet-moving anthems. What if Ween were less lazy and less overtly heterosexual, or if the Beta Band fell in love with the dance floor and again made more music as good as their first EPs? Because of the alleged obnoxiousness of Hot Chip's audience, there are those who have a problem with this incredibly talented group. But if we only listened to music based on audiences, we'd probably never listen to Neil Young or Madonna, either, and what would life be like then? No fun, that's what it would be like. And Hot Chip is, quite simply, music for people who like fun. --Mike McGonigal

EAN: 5099951809720

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New