Hot Chip

Hot Chip – Why Make Sense? (Deluxe Edition) (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:35 minutes | 744 MB | Genre: Electonic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Domino Recording Co

Why Make Sense? is the sixth studio album by English electronic music band Hot Chip. With this album, Hot Chip continue to capture pure joy while acknowledging the limits of such a quest. It’s an adult album made by a group of guys in their mid-thirties who know all of the trappings of an “adult album.” These ahead-of-their-time pop omnivores—remember the bewilderment that surrounded the bedroom Prince and Stevie-isms of their debut album in 2004?—are now, remarkably, something of an institution, their eclecticism the new normal. The deluxe edition of the album includes an EP, titled Separate, containing four additional new songs.

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Hot Chip – A Bath Full of Ecstasy (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:39 minutes | 1006 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Domino Recording Co

A Bath Full of Ecstasy is a fresh, invigorating and essential new chapter in Hot Chip’s career, taking in their huge breadth of influence and melody as only Hot Chip can. This is the first time the band have chosen to use outside producers from the offset, working with Philippe Zdar (Cat Power, Beastie Boys, Phoenix, Cassius) and Rodaidh McDonald (The XX, Sampha, David Byrne), and there is a marked dynamism in Zdar’s mixing that brings out the boldness of the songs collected here. The record is a celebration of joy but recognises the struggle it can take to get to that point of happiness. You can hear the pleasure Hot Chip had in creating this album and they want to pass on that feeling to the listener. It is time to get lost in A Bath Full of Ecstasy.

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Hot Chip – Eleanor (Remixes) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 26:47 minutes | 324 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Domino Recording Co

In April, Hot Chip announced their return with news of their eighth album Freakout/Release – due Aug 19th – as well as the first taste of it with storming single “Eleanor”. They are now pleased to release four new remixes of the track.

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Hot Chip – Freakout/Release (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:23 minutes | 556 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Domino Recording Co

The English synthpop quintet are feeling good, if conflicted, on their eighth album. “The idea of being out of control is always there in dance music, in a positive sense,” Hot Chip’s Al Doyle has said of the record’s title and theme. But, as band member Joe Goddard pointed out: “We were living through a period where it was very easy to feel like people were losing control of their lives in different ways.” So while the irresistible track “Eleanor”—one of the band’s best, ever—sounds as shiny and clean as a soap bubble bouncing through the sky, singer Alexis Taylor explained that “It’s about the world smashing into you, waves crashing into you, all-encompassing pain, and how you have to walk through it … The verses are about separation when families are divided against their will.” (“Hold me gently as you fall asleep/ Even if you believe that there’s nothing more/ I feel heaven knocking at our door.”) The dark introspection turns interior on the industrial “Guilty”—”Why is there no stop sign when I start to implode?”—and goes tongue-in-cheek for “Hard to Be Funky,” with its spooky breeze of synth and guest vocals from Lou Hayter. As the verses bear a rainy-day funk (only to shimmer in the chorus), Taylor ponders a paradox: “Ain’t it hard to be funky/ When you’re not feeling sexy/ And it’s hard to feel sexy/ When you’re not very funky.” The band must have been feeling sexy the day they recorded “Down,” a banger with traces of early Prince funkiness that samples Universal Togetherness Band’s “More Than Enough.” The title track has a Kraftwerk-like beat, “Not Alone” is delicate, like a ballad from a fantasy anime film, and “Broken” wields Pet Shop Boys melodrama—with Taylor sounding like butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth. Rapper Cadence Weapon lends cool lines to the theatrical “The Evil That Men Do.” “Miss The Bliss,” contradictorily, cruises on a blissful chill-out beat; Taylor sounds like a robot with a drone chorus behind him until a heavenly organ opens up the whole thing and you can practically feel the god light shining down. When the second half plays, it’s almost like a house remix of the first part of the song: joyful synths, vibrant drum sounds, party organ

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Hot Chip – Down (Remixes) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 26:56 minutes | 310 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Domino Recording Co

In April, Hot Chip announced their return with news of their eighth album Freakout/Release – due Aug 19th – as well as the first taste of it with storming single “Down”. They are now pleased to release three new remixes of the track.

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