Hot Chip
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Hot Chip: Coming on Strong (Astralwerks)
Review by Will Hermes, Spin, January 2006
TIMMY THOMAS' 1972 beat-boxdriven hit 'Why Can't We Live Together?' is a paradigm of how machine rhythms can make the human voice sound simultaneously stalwart ...
Review by Paul Morley, The Observer, 21 May 2006
The style-mag favourites walk the irony tightrope with their airy electro-pop. Paul Morley applauds from the stalls ...
Hot Chip: King's College, London
Live Review by Sophie Heawood, The Guardian, 3 June 2006
HOT CHIP are five white Englishmen who stand in a straight line across the stage, as if waiting to be shot. They claim to love ...
Hot Chip: Made in the Dark ****
Review by Ben Thompson, The Observer, 20 January 2008
You might know them as pop nerds, but Ben Thompson just loves their power ballads ...
Hot Chip: The League of Very Ordinary Gentlemen
Profile and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Spin, February 2008
Everybody seems to love Hot Chip's catchy, endearing dance pop. But are these bookish Brits ready to love everybody back? ...
Super Fry Guys: Hot Chip's Made In The Dark (EMI)
Review by John McCready, The Word, February 2008
Hot Chip: Brains from Thunderbirds and his science-block mates create wonderful dance music — that you don't have to dance to. ...
Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 1 February 2008
Chips with everything ...
Hot Chip/Todd Rundgren: That's one potent hot toddy
Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 25 July 2008
Hot Chip gave Todd Rundgren his first hit in 35 years. Rundgren talks to the band's Alexis Taylor - and almost causes an international incident. ...
Hot Chip: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 10 November 2008
"WELCOME TO the Hot Chip show," shouts guitarist Al Doyle, as if priming the crowd for a Vegas cabaret act rather than five Londoners whose ...
Hot Chip: One Life Stand (Parlophone)
Review by Simon Price, The Word, February 2010
THE NAME, of course, is one of pop's great double entendres. As well as carrying the sense of overloaded silicon circuitry, "Hot Chip" — like ...
Hot Chip: Academy, Newcastle ****
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 19 February 2010
HOT CHIP walk on to deafening applause… on tape. Then the real audience start clapping, not just at their arrival, but at the audacity of ...
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, March 2010
Beguiling fourth from the impressively unclassifiable London brainiacs. ...
LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip: Alexandra Palace, London
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 12 November 2010
LIKE AN indie-rock version of the Special Relationship, the New York disco-punks LCD Soundsystem and their London electro-pop soulmates Hot Chip are on a joint ...
This Is Not This Heat: Cafe Oto, London
Live Review by Luke Turner, The Guardian, 14 February 2016
Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore joined the experimental lineup for a night of fresh and focussed sounds ...
Green Gartside and Alexis Taylor: West End Centre, Aldershot
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 12 December 2017
The blended vocal harmonies of the founder of Scritti Politti and the Hot Chip frontman made even the weaker songs shine. ...
Hot Chip: Trinity Centre, Bristol
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 8 April 2019
This London band are likeable crowd-pleasers live, but they need to step out of their cosy pyjama-clad comfort zone more often. ...
Hot Chip: A Bath Full Of Ecstasy
Review by David Bennun, Metro, 18 June 2019
ALMOST A decade ago it wouldn't have been a stretch to call Hot Chip Britain's best pop band. They produced wonderful, warm-hearted electro floor-fillers with ...
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