The Download: New Hot Chip MP3s
Along with Alexis Taylor’s recent solo effort, Hot Chip is keeping its fans hunger for dancefloor worthy electro-pop appeased with a collaborative EP with the Soft Machine’s Robert Wyatt. The four-track collection, entitiled Hot Chip with Robert Wyatt and Geese, hits retailers just in time for Christmas on December 23. From the Hot Chip website:
“Long recognised as one of the pioneers of avant-jazz rock, from his beginnings as a member of Soft Machine and through his collaborations with Scritti Politti and Syd Barrett, Robert Wyatt brings his quietly magical touch to 3 songs personally chosen from Hot Chip’s 2008 album “Made in the Dark”. The result – as recorded at Gallery Studios earlier this year – are several mutations of songs that are as delicate and whimsical as they are adventurous and distinctive.
Meanwhile, Hot Chip’s old friends and collaborators Geese (aka Emma and Vince from The Elysian Quartet) also lent a hand, reworking the new, Robert Wyatt- assisted “We’re Looking…” while completely overhauling “One Pure Thought” from a straightahead floor shaker into something stranger, dreamier, but no less lovely. All in all, a deliciously unpredictable collaboration made in quirk-pop heaven.”
Preorder the CD at Parlophone Records’ Amazon store or surrender your email address to the band’s mailing list to receive half of the EP for free.
