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A spell of soul-searching about the band’s musical mission has produced a thumping set of infectious funk tunes from new album Why Make Sense?
You don’t go to a Hot Chip gig in search of classic rock. Yet deliberately or not, the London five-piece – expanded to a visibly industrious seven-piece on tour, shadowy figures flitting between synth stacks and guitars – frame this thumping set with a couple of nods to the greats. They emerge from the darkness to the strains of Brian Wilson’s ’Til I Die, a deceptively melancholy start.
Their imminent sixth album Why Make Sense? has been trailed by stories of self-doubt and anxiety over the band’s continued relevance. Perhaps a little self-interrogation is no bad thing. It’s been almost a decade since Alexis Taylor first sang so insinuatingly about “the joy of repetition” on Over and Over, a song that cemented a certain image of Hot Chip as spod-ball masters of eccentric, addictive dance-pop with a pleasingly handmade quality. How, then, to push things forward?
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