Hot Chip | Freakout / Release - Brown Vinyl

WIGLP481X

19/08/22

Limited edition indies-only gatefold brown double vinyl

Includes download code

Hot Chip present their eighth album, ‘Freakout/Release’, via Domino.

‘Freakout/Release’ is another dizzying high in a multi-decade career that’s seen Hot Chip continuing to innovate and develop a rich, resonant songcraft. And while they continue to operate at peak form, the album also feels like a new chapter for the group -a collection of flesh-and-blood songs that finds the band reaching into the darkness to emerge as a true creative unit, their gazes fixed positively on the future ahead.

The five piece - comprised of Owen Clarke, Al Doyle, Joe Goddard, Felix Martin and Alexis Taylor - wrote and recorded in the band’s newly minted Relax & Enjoy studio in East London, a creative space that Al Doyle put together before and during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fittingly, harnessing Hot Chip’s irrepressible live energy in a studio space was in the front of the band’s mind, as they found themselves particularly inspired by their cover of Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’ that’s become a set list staple.

Tracklisting

Down
Eleanor
Freakout/Release
Broken
Not Alone
Hard To Be Funky feat.
Lou Hayter
Time
Miss The Bliss
The Evil That Men Do feat.
Cadence Weapon
Guilty
Out Of My Depth
The Most Painful Game *
* = Bonus track - LP only