Hot Chip release the reissues of The Warning, Made In The Dark and One Life Stand. The albums are being reissued this year for the first time. The collection is the result of Joe Goddard, Alexis Taylor, Owen Clarke, Al Doyle and Felix Martin’s lifelong friendship and musical chemistry.
Rewind to the year 2006 when British music was enthrall to guitar bands in winklepickers and waistcoats. And then along came Hot Chip’s album The Warning like a kaleidoscopic bolt from the blue and turned a generation of indie fans onto the hedonistic pleasure of repetitive beats. The Warning was a ahead of the zeitgeist, spending 17 weeks in the UK charts and earning a Mercury Prize nomination thanks to tracks like ‘Over & Over’ and ‘Boy From School’.
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Hot Chip’s brand of dazed and fizzy alternative dance & synthpop has been their signature plate that’s decorated with various coats across different records, gaining them the widespread attention that has persisted ever since. Now 25 years in as a band, they’ve assembled their essential tracks within Joy in Repetition, celebrating the songs that stood out in their storied discography.
Like it or not, Hot Chip has formed an affinity for groovy repetition in their sound. Started back in 2000, each subsequent record always provides an addition to their kinetic alternative dance rollicks. Refining mid-tempo bliss and shuffling synthpop bops across The Warning to in Our Heads, dabbling further in house tones on Why Make Sense, injecting ethereal atmospherics…