What can be expected from a band that promotes themselves with 'Hot Chip will break your legs, snap off your head / Hot Chip will put you down, under the ground' in the title track of their latest CD? A horde of unhinged Satanists whose favorite pastime is to sacrifice young virgins under an inverted crucifix? A fierce band of Hell's Angels on a raid? Ravers fallen prey to pills? Nothing is less
… true. Hot Chip makes extremely subtle pop music using all the beautiful and sweet influences that have occurred since 1960. Add to that the vocals of and that will be labeled by one as angelic and by the other as a notorious lamentation and the picture is complete. Despite the chaotic beginning, every part of every song is exactly on the beat in the production matrix, so that even the heavier hits come across as particularly soft. This makes Hot Chip the ideal listening food for people who find the world around them too heavy. (AD)more
