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Hot Chip Get Straight To The Morning

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Hot Chip release their brand-new single, ‘Straight To The Morning’, featuring the inimitable Jarvis Cocker. Produced by the band and Mark Ralph, the song is a transportive tonic of fresh, modern disco that harks back to carefree communion on the dancefloor.

 

Originally written with Dua Lipa in mind, the track found a new life amidst a collaboration that sprang from Hot Chip and Jarvis Cocker DJing together at Paris’ legendary Les Bains-Douches. The quintet said of working with Cocker: “‘Straight To The Morning’ is a disco anthem about going out, for a time when people really can’t, and it features our friend Jarvis Cocker urging us to go “straight through until the break of dawn.” Somehow he seems an unlikely figure in this all, and we like it that way.”

 

Jarvis adds: “This was the very last musical session I was involved in before lockdown. It felt very poignant to be singing a song about dancing all night long in a club whilst knowing it wouldn’t be possible to do such a thing for the foreseeable future. We danced around the studio quite a lot in the meantime though. It was fun to be a member of the Straight Through Crew for a day.”

 

The video is as infectious as the track. A CANADA production and directed by Réalité, it features a group of girls indulging in their own form of hedonism whilst their parents are away: daft and daring internet challenges, mattress fights, karaoke and all the snacks, all at once.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hot Chip Share Melody Of Love

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On June 21, Hot Chip will release their dynamic new album A Bath Full Of Ecstasy; a fresh, invigorating and essential new chapter in the band's career, it finds the band working with external producers for the first time, Philippe Zdar and Rodaidh McDonald. Following their incredible performance at All Points East festival last week, the band have shared a second song from their forthcoming record, ‘Melody of Love’.

The album’s opening track, began life as a 12-minute instrumental track featuring a sample from the gospel group The Mighty Clouds of Joy. Under the eye of McDonald, the group turned it into a bombastic explosion of Technicolor pop. The song is about the importance of the transformative, non-verbal moment – ecstasy as personal happiness, but also of transcendence, of being outside oneself.

A Bath Full Of Ecstasy finds lead vocalist Alexis Taylor stepping out of his comfort zone with his lyricism; though rooted in first person, here his storytelling becomes more bodily, and more open to new ideas. The record is a celebration of joy but recognises the struggle it can take to get to that point of happiness. You can hear the pleasure Hot Chip had in creating this album and they want to pass on that feeling to the listener.

Upcoming live dates

20th June – Banquet Records @ Pryzm, Kingston

21st June – Hot Chip Megamix @ XOYO, London

28-30th June – Glastonbury festival, Somerset

19-21st July – Bluedot Festival, Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield

2-4th August – All Together Now festival, Waterford, Ireland

4th August – Playground of Sound festival, Glasgow

16th Oct – Limelight, Belfast

17th Oct – Olympia, Dublin

18th Oct - O2 Institute 1, Birmingham

21st Oct - O2 Academy, Bristol

22nd Oct - Rock City, Nottingham

24th Oct – LCR, Norwich

26th Oct – Alexandra Palace, London

 

 

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