Mon, Feb 4. | Goldenvoice Presents:
POSTPONED: Hot Chip with Devlin & Darko
Doors @ 8pm | $24.00
Update: this show has been rescheduled for April 28th at the Mayan. Any tickets purchased for the El Rey show will be honored at the Mayan. If you can't make it to that show, you can get a refund at your point of purchase.
Hot Chip have been informed by 2 years of touring across the globe taking in Australia and Japan and are about to embark on a tour of South America. Incredibly they sold out Somerset House in under a day. Live music has always been at the heart of the band, so it seems inevitable that the new album Made In The Dark captures some of the band's performances in a more traditional, rock music fashion. Powerful amplifiers, keyboards and distortion have all crept into the Hot Chip arsenal. This tougher sound is no more evident than on the Todd Rungden sampling anthem ‘Shake A Fist’ which created a massive stir when it crept out earlier this year on a limited etched 12”.
Made In The Dark showcases more ballads from Hot Chip than ever before and a great appreciation of deep soul. Alexis’ voice sounds as tender and beautiful as ever evoking an angelic sensuality of folk acts such as Bonnie Prince Billy and Richard and Linda Thompson. Title track ‘Made In The Dark’ and ‘We’re Looking For A Lot Of Love’ are perfect examples. Soulful introspections aside songs such as ‘Bendable Poseable’ provide further rhythmical chaos and ‘Ready For The Floor’ and ‘One Pure Thought’ add pure, unadulterated head rush pop into the mix. No song sounds the same but each has it's place, no surprise coming from songwriters who grew up on Sign 'O' The Times and The White Album.
This is a record recorded largely at home and produced entirely by the band (with valuable help from live sound engineer Jonathan Digby). Remarkably, tracks such as ‘Hold On’ and ‘Out At The Pictures’ were recorded fully live as band and in one take. Throughout ‘Made In The Dark’ there are echoes of earlier songs and styles, steps forwards, backwards and sideways.
Clarke's signature guitar and keyboard riffs, Doyle's high calibre musicianship and Martin's programming skills have combined with the considerable talents of Goddard and Taylor in a way making the songs even more propulsive, repetitive, rhythmical, methodical, wonky, intimate and beautiful than before.