Hot Chip

Hot Chip

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  • Released 02/10/2020

    Catalogue No. ALN56

    In these strange and viral times, music may not be able to save but it can certainly salve; and we’ve never needed such unguents as we do now. Thank goodness for Hot Chip, then. If you’ve ever wondered what a bath full of ecstasy might actually sound like then step this way, take off your bathrobe and relax into this aural peregrination.

    Hot Chip were formed via the friendship between Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard with Al Doyle, Felix Martin, and Owen Clarke completing the line-up. Subsequently, they’ve gone on to establish themselves as one of the UK’s most interesting acts – including nominations for Grammies and Mercury Music Prizes – with music that is contemplative yet also ecstatic.

    The centrepiece of this mix are four new Hot Chip songs, including their reading of the Velvets’ ‘Candy Says’ whose lyric, “bluebirds fly over my shoulder” melts perfectly into the electronic birdsong of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s ‘Who I Am & Why I Am Where I Am’. Keeping it in the family Alexis’s father Neil elegantly delivers an extract of the syntactically tortuous Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.

    They have dug deep to winkle out some of the most interesting artists to emerge recently, from Beatrice Dillon, described by The Guardian as “the most thrilling new artist in electronic music”; Euro-dub maestros Rhythm & Sound’s elegant collaboration with Cornell Campbell, ‘King In My Empire’, while English composer Daniel Blumberg’s heart-stoppingly beautiful ‘The Bomb’ is a tour-de-force. If this is a bath, then release yourself to its warmth; Epsom salts for the soul. Sink in, let yourself go.

    Bill Brewster


    Vinyl Tracklist (Unmixed tracks with mixed/unmixed track download code) 

    A1 Christina Vantzou - At Dawn (2:51)
    A2 Hot Chip - Nothing's Changed (4:37)
    A3 Rhythm & Sound ft Cornell Campbell - King In My Empire (Burial Mix) (6:26)
    A4 Pale Blue - Have You Passed Through This Night (6:20)  

    B1 Suzanne Kraft - Femme Cosmic (4:43)
    B2 Fever Ray - To The Moon And Back (4:38)
    B3 PlanningToRock - Much To Touch (4:42)
    B4 Charlotte Adigery - 1,618 (5:59)

    C1 Mike Salta - Hey Moloko (4.05)
    C2 Matthew Bourne - Somewhere I Have Never Travelled (4:04)
    C3 Hot Chip - Candy Says (3:31)
    C4 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Who I Am & Why I Am Where (5:21)
    C5 Beatrice Dillon - Workaround Two (4:22)

    D1 Hot Chip - Worlds Within Worlds (5:38)
    D2 Daniel Blumberg - The Bomb (4:59)
    D3 Nils Frahm - Ode (4:35)
    D4 Hot Chip - None Of These Things (4:04)
    D5 Neil Taylor - Finnegan's Wake excerpt (1:48)

    CD TRACKLIST (Mix with unmixed track download code)

    1. Christina Vantzou – At Dawn
    2. Hot Chip – Nothing’s Changed (Exclusive Track)
    3. Rhythm & Sound feat Cornell Campbell – King In My Empire
    4. Pale Blue – Have You Passed Through This Night
    5. Suzanne Kraft - Femme Cosmic
    6. Fever Ray – To The Moon And Back
    7. Planningtorock - Much To Touch
    8. Charlotte Adigéry – 1,618
    9. Mike Salta – Hey Moloko
    10. Matthew Bourne – Somewhere I Have Never Travelled (for Coral Evans)
    11. Hot Chip – Candy Says (Exclusive Velvet Underground Cover Version)
    12. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Who I Am And Why Am I Where
    13. About Group – The Long Miles (CD / Download Only)
    14. Beatrice Dillon – Workaround Two
    15. Hot Chip – Worlds Within Worlds (Exclusive Track)
    16. Daniel Blumberg - The Bomb
    17. Nils Frahm - Ode
    18. Hot Chip – None Of These Things (Exclusive Track)
    19. Neil Taylor - Finnegan's Wake excerpt (Exclusive Spoken Word Piece)

     


  • Released 02/10/2020

    Catalogue No. ALN56