[Album Review] Hot Chip Cruises With “Why Make Sense”

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British indietronica collective Hot Chip just released their sixth album.  This one is bound to suck.. right?  Flip that around baby, this album is one of the hottest tickets of the musical year.  Quirky-yet-dancy is the name of the game, and Alexis Taylor will carry you lightly through the tracklisting with his insightfully charming whines.  Read more, won’t you?

The deep, warm synths in the opening track “Huarache Lights” ensure you that everything is going to be okay.  An awesome array of synth sounds crecendo throughout, but keep coming back to this pounding foundation.  Somewhat dystopic thoughts can be inferred from the lyrics.  I mean, yeah, they’re getting old.

Hey look more super slick synth in “Love Is The Future.”  The falsetto is soulful, and the percussion is super fun.  You’ll be inexplicably delighted with a juxtaposed rap verse after the first choral break.  Still can’t shake the undertones of the robotic, automated, dystopic vox samples throughout.

An off-canter 4 count immediately sets “Started Right” apart from the first tracks of the album.  Just devastating vocal layering on this track, I dare you not to start grooving when the strings start getting plucked in the first chorus.  Again I’m so drawn to the warmth of the synth work.  My favorite line: “You make my heart feel like it’s my brain.”  Poetic AND funky.

“White Wine & Fried Chicken” is your slowburner from the album.  Despite it’s promises to be the perfect marriage of Happy Madison comedy and cuisine, this is the track I’ve had on repeat.  “Dark Night” is too smooth, the melody is just too good.  The progression of the chorus is so dance-able it’s hard to put into words.

Get your house fix with “Need You Now.”  Almost Caribou-like vibes flow throughout this one.  The vocal samples are so simple but so emotional, everything a great deep house track needs.  The range of styles of this album is truly fantastic.

The last and title track of “Why Make Sense?” really kind of brings meaning to the project title.  Taking a complete left turn from the lane they were cruising in, they introduce some harsher and heavier sounds.  The vocals remain smooth, but they’re engulfed by some really hellish synths.  In a good way, doe.

Go buy their album on iTunes.  Or vinyl you groovey groover.

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