A unique, personal collection that is both euphoric and melancholic, UK electronic artpop outfit Hot Chip provide the perfect antidote to these strange and uncertain times with the latest release in the hugely popular LateNightTales artist-curated series.
Along with featuring new music from the band, they have selected music from some of the most engaging artists of the 21st century, taking in pulsating electronic rhythms, hypnotic grooves and leftfield ambience.
Spearheaded by founders Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard, Hot Chip are one of the UK’s most interesting and much-loved acts. Since releasing their debut album ‘Coming On Strong’ in 2004, they have received a Grammy Award nomination (‘Ready for the Floor’) and Mercury Prize nomination (‘The Warning’) and their seventh studio album, last year’s ‘A Bath Full of Ecstasy,’ received rave reviews across the globe from both critics and fans.
Hot Chip’s ‘LateNightTales’ opens with the simplistic beauty of Christina Vantzou’s ‘At Dawn,’ before morphing in to the first of four exclusive tracks from the band - the floating, transcendent ‘Nothing’s Changed’, before Rhythm & Sound ft. Cornell Campbell serve up the heavy dub classic, ‘King In My Empire’.
The journey continues with Pale Blue’s ‘Have You Passed Through This Night’, a silky, cold wave disco track, while Suzanne Kraft’s ‘Femme Cosmic’ and Fever Ray’s ‘To The Moon and Back’ provide squelchy synth-pop. Furthermore, the punchy ‘Much To Touch’ from Bolton-born, Berlin based producer Planningtorock and an ethereal cover of Velvet Underground’s ‘Candy Says’ by our hosts add an element of displacement and detachment.
Tracklist:
A1 Christina Vantzou– At Dawn
A2 Hot Chip– Nothing's Changed
A3 Rhythm & Sound– King In My Empire
A4 Pale Blue – Have You Passed Through This Night
B1 Suzanne Kraft– Femme Cosmic
B2 Fever Ray– To The Moon And Back
B3 PlanningToRock– Much To Touch
B4 Charlotte Adigéry– 1,618
C1 Mike Salta– Hey Moloko
C2 Matthew Bourne– Somewhere I Have Never Travelled (For Coral Evans)
C3 Hot Chip– Candy Says
C4 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith– Who I Am And Why Am I Where I Am
C5 Beatrice Dillon– Workaround Two
D1 Hot Chip– Worlds Within Worlds
D2 Daniel Blumberg– The Bomb
D3 Nils Frahm– Ode
D4 Hot Chip– None Of These Things
D5 Neil Taylor – Finnegans Wake (Excerpt)
