Hot Chip will break your legs
Snap off your head
Hot Chip will put you down
Under the ground
Don't think you will, Alexis, not wearing those glasses anyway. Hot Chip's second album The Warning sees the R&B obsessed five piece getting all angry (Laid back, I'll give you laid back). The thing with Hot chip is that you are never entirely whether to take them seriously. Their decidedly geeky appearance does not sit easily with their R&B influences, but really their influences are many and diverse and just boil down to what can be done some vintage synths and drum machines, although lots of live percussion was used in the recording of the album.
Although Hot Chip are a five piece, the core of the band are Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard who wrote the music, produced the album and sang the songs. Their vocals give good contrast. Taylor sings in a kind of falsetto, whereas Goddard's voice is much deeper. The majority of vocals are actually handled by Taylor, but it is pretty multi-layered.
The best known track on the Warning would be Over and Over, if only for its use on the BBC's Culture Show. Despite the anger it is often in their more reflective moments that Hot Chip are at their best, for example on Look After Me.
No review of Hot Chip would be complete without a mention of New Order. So, yeah, they sound a bit like New Order. Consider yourself warned.
Recommended Track: Over and Over or Look After Me, depending on how angry you feel
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