Hot Chip by Matilda Hill-Jenkins
Hot Chip are working towards the release of their eighth studio album.
With Freakout/Release due on August 19th, Hot Chip are streaming its latest preview Eleanor.
“It’s about the world smashing into you, waves crashing into you, all-encompassing pain, and how you have to walk through it,” Alexis Taylor says.
“The verses are about separation when families are divided against their will. It’s about strong friends. It’s also about Samuel Beckett giving Andre The Giant lifts to school, and about how Beckett must have learned a lot from Andre’s wisdom.”
The band have previously singled out the ethos locked inside Beastie Boys’ classic Sabotage – a regular on their live sets for sometime – as the starting point for their new record; focusing on how, ‘the idea of being out of control is always there in dance music, in a positive sense’.