I'm a casual Hot Chip fan. What I've heard, I've liked. Made In The Dark is the first of their albums I've actually bought, and I can see myself buying more.
Pros:
- Experimental, production-wise. Lots of messing around that comes off reeeally well.
- There's at least six or six songs on it you'll want to dance to.
- Hook city. Bendable Poseable; Ready For The Floor and particularly Shake a Fist are catchy as hell, and kickass.
- While the album is about 60% party music, they also do 'mellow' quite well.
- It seems to be a grower.
- Some of the up-tempo numbers are non-starters, and a bit 'same-y'.
- Nothing quite as good as Over and Over (can we hold that against them?).
- When the 'mellow' doesn't work, it reeeally doesn't work.
- Not much immediate satisfaction, for the pop-song-junkies out there.
- Tendency to shite on a bit.
Listen:
The truly excellent Shake a Fist
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