Hot Chip by Matilda Hill-Jenkins
Hot Chip will play four nights at the Brixton Academy next month.
Hot Chip have picked the title-track to be third taste of their new album Freakout/Release.
“Freakout/Release is about pent-up energy and the need for release, and escape,” Alexis Taylor says. “It’s also about making sense of music, and at times being plagued by the thing you focus on – music never leaves my head for a second, which is usually a good feeling, but it can feel claustrophobic at times too.”
“It’s also about finding your place in relation to music and to performing. The riff should feel brutal and dumb and elemental and Joe was thinking about Seven Nation Army and the simplicity of that swinging from quiet to loud and back and forth.”
Tour dates:
August
5 – Junction 1 Summer Series, Glasgow
18 – Banquet @ PRYZM, Kingston
19 – Resident @ Chalk, Brighton
23 – Rough Trade East, London (DJ set)
September
21,22,23,24 – o2 Academy, Brixton, London