I've been a huge Hot Chip fan for years and their sweet dance music has soundtracked many seriously happy memories. There's not much more fun to be had than surveying a group of your nearest and dearest friends jumping about to Over and Over, acting out in unison exactly what a monkey looks like with a miniature symbol. That track even gained a top five place on our wedding disco playlist, that's how much Hot Chip are cherished in our house.
If first impressions are anything to go by, their brand new album Why Make Sense? is destined for a similar fate - and the fact that each cover is a unique work of art, thanks to a clever bespoke printing system, means it will almost certainly end up adorning one of our walls as well as the sound system.
Early favourites include the awesome Need You Now, which is making me actually ache for the summer.
If first impressions are anything to go by, their brand new album Why Make Sense? is destined for a similar fate - and the fact that each cover is a unique work of art, thanks to a clever bespoke printing system, means it will almost certainly end up adorning one of our walls as well as the sound system.
Early favourites include the awesome Need You Now, which is making me actually ache for the summer.
Started Right is another track I can't wait to hear live, ideally in a field at sunset somewhere soon. Find out what vocalist Alexis Taylor had to tell me about the making of the record, why they can never really take a break from Hot Chip and what inspired him to write a song about fried chicken. Read more.