I kinda wrote off Hot Chip after The Warning. It wasn't the band itself, it was more like everyone got on their new wavist / brit populist revivalist train and I had to jump to Storage Wars. Fast forward 8 years(!) since their debut and the water temperature has changed. People who haven't been talking about Hot Chip are back at it again, maybe we're ready for another dose of that miniscule front man who is known to wear Hulk gloves and sings like a classically trained bully target. Yeah, I uploaded this into my iTunes... it's sounding pretty sweet jumping from bouncy to ballad-y in a emotional 80s type way. 10 tracks in all.

• music label: Domino 2012

reviewed by the mgmnt 07/2012