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Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
| Popmatters | | For many listeners, the most memorable lyric from Hot Chip’s amazing third album may be this: ”Made in the Dark by Hot Chip, coming soon”. A robotic voice chirps the words over each track of the leaked advance copy, usually at the most inopportune moment—when the vocals enter for the first time, or when a chorus kicks off. If you’ve only heard those tracks, if you’ve lived with these new songs graffitied with corporate paranoia—not to get all high and mighty—but this one time you owe it to the music to pay for it, for once....full text |
| | Slantmagazine | | English dance-rockers Hot Chip have always seemed like the kind of nice boys who you might feel comfortable bringing home to Mom, provided that your mom likes coke-bottle glasses, calculus, and Prince. Sure, the title track of their breakthrough album, The Warning, suggested that "Hot Chip will break your legs/Snap off your head," but the song was so coy and burbly that it never really sounded threatening, evoking a nerd's under-breath schoolyard mutterings more than actual violence. Made in the Dark, on the other hand, means its menace....full text |
| | Adequacy | British indie electro-poppers Hot Chip have always been a quirky bunch. Since their debut four years ago, their music has always possessed that smart and humorous knack that always made them so appealing. On their new album, Made in the Dark they have come full circle to not only make their best album to date but one of the better albums of the year.
Besides the clear best song, “Ready for the Floor,” everything on this album sounds diversely tremendous. Hot Chip has even attempted to write a few ballads that really work in the format of the album because they give it a depth and substance that truly add to Made in the Dark’s overall scheme....full text |
| | Lostatsea | | Those of us who prefer songs to textures might have our tastes in electronica scoffed at as ephemeral, to which I say, whatever, you liked "Rockefeller Skank" in '98, too. Song-based techno's on a boom right now that nearly matches the great, millennial Chemical Brothers-Moby-Prodigy coup. I'm not even talking about LCD Soundsystem, who, fresh off his Pazz & Jop win, is still a groove artist with a gimmick. But I'll throw down for last year's frayed and warped Justice record, the Knife, of course, and the lovable jokers in Hot Chip, who, no matter what you've read, are only just now splitting the atom....full text |
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