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HOT CHIP - DJ Kicks
| PitchFork | | Pop songs repetitive enough to appeal to the dance set. Dance sets poppy enough to beg constant repetition. Fun songs about love. Love songs about fun. These are just some of the reasons why Hot Chip may be the closest thing we have to an indie music Switzerland. Different factions may try to claim them as their own, but the London electro-pop quintet has managed to remain largely nondiscriminatory with their output. It's so-called "poptimism" of the best kind: Hot Chip's answer to every genre always seems to be a resounding, open-armed "yes."...full text |
| | Lost At Sea magazine | | I used to think K7!'s DJ-Kicks was just another pointless series of mixes, flashing the pretentious favorites of hip-as-fuck artist/curators. And while I'm pretty sure that the series is some sort of status indicator, at least I now know that there is some respectable point to the entire thing....full text |
| | PrefixMag | | Hot Chip has the requisite characteristics of a rock band -- fuzzy guitars, ennui-laden indie vocals -- but such swinging up-tempo grooves as "Over and Over" or the bubbly "Boy from School" show these guys listen to plenty of electronic music as well. And let's not forget the group's remixes of artist like Amy Winehouse, the Junior Boys, and minimal house outfit Booka Shade. So it's not surprising that the quintet would be recruited by !K7's to contribute to its increasingly adventurous DJ Kicks series....full text |
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