Hot Chip Off The Old Block

Electro: at one end of the spectrum you have the funny-but-embarassing Euro-kitsch of tracks such as Bodyrockers' I Like The Way You Move (I like ze way you comb your h-airrr, etc.). Fortunately for those of us who can't listen to such nonsensical fare with a straight face, there are experimentalist maraca-shaking nerds who speak of monkeys with miniature cymbals...

That's right, Hot Chip have returned and continue to set the bar high for alt-dance indietronica with their fourth album One Life Stand. Jaz first came across these bespectacled eccentrics as relative unknowns supporting dominatrix-era Goldfrapp (then Queen of electro) in 2005. It was love at first blip (or bleep). For dancing synths à la William Orbit circa Barber's Adagio For Strings, and New Order-style dark romance with an uplifting sentiment, check out I Feel Better. Jaz best not inform you that this track is oddly reminiscent of Madonna's La Isla Bonita. Oops...



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