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The Warning by: Hot Chip List Price: £8.99 CD-Charts Price: £4.98 You Save: £4.01 (45%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0094636598826 Label: EMI Manufacturer: EMI Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: EMI Release Date: May 22, 2006 Studio: EMI Sales Rank: 2138 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: The second album from Hot Chip, The Warning sees these inspired pop alchemists pull off some truly devious musical juxtapositions. Scholars of music from Timbaland to Stevie Wonder to the Aphex Twin, this South London quartet make quirky, ideas-packed vocal electronica perpetually veering between moments of bliss, humour, and sheer sonic mentalism - take the opening "Careful", vocalists Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard sweetly harmonising "Every year, exactly this time of year/They float a balloon up into the air", as the tune leapfrogs along on the sort of demented breakbeat rave seldom seen outside a Squarepusher record. Luckily, Hot Chip know enough not to sabotage all their elegant pop moments. "Boy From School" cribs deliciously from Stardust’s robo-Balearic anthem "Music Sounds Better With You", while "Over And Over" ("Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal/The joy of repetition really is in you") is bouncy testament to the joy of dumb, fun dance music. Further in, too, there’s sweet moments like "Look After Me", an R&B-tinged plea to an ex-lover, that sees these clever-clever white boys succeed in getting sentimental without resorting to irony. A dream synthesis of warmth and intelligence. --Louis Pattison Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - 8/10. "Hot Chip will break your legs, snap off your head"Genre-bending Hot Chip have not only released some of the singles of the year but one of its best albums. As with Gorillaz and Gnarls Barkley recently, mid-way into the `noughties' we are starting to see some real wit and invention in pop music that may come to define the decade. `The Warning' finds them putting heart and soul into their curious mish-mash of folk whimsy, house and electronica. For all the sonics and low-fi trickery, and the comedy lyrics, there is beauty and genuinity shining throughout. Their songs are unconventionally tangential, with phases and subtexts, but pulled off with a playful insouciance that belies some of the technical brilliance. After the abrasive aural assault of the opener `Careful' is the brilliant ... Read More: Rating:  - In a word, dance pop at it's peak of eccentricity...There's something about us Brits. We are almost renowned and indeed, revel in the fact that we can be eccentric little mukkers sometimes. You wouldn't, for example, see the Pussycat Dolls or Beyonce vamping it up with the horse's tail Alison Goldfrapp is so often seen wearing in their live sets, would you? And in terms of our music, we certainly don't get more eccentric and lively than London new rave five piece Hot Chip. With their third album, "Made In The Dark" waiting in the wings for release and new single "Ready For The Floor" all over the radio like a rash, I felt it only necessary to revisit one of 2006's greatest dance pop albums - the Mercury Prize nominated "The Warning". One of the great things about this album ... Read More: Rating: - hot for hot chipI went into Virgin the other day heard the first minute of a song from the album being played. I asked a staff member what it was and they of course said "Hot Chip". I instantly bought the cd and before this cd i had never owned another of the electronica/rock genre [other than massive attack and portishead but Hot Chip are completley different and i struggled to get into those artists]. This has opened my eyes into a whole new wonderful genre and im loving it, also listening to simular artists such as Postal Service. If you want something new to listen to and you dont mind this type of music GO FOR IT. If you are involved in music engineering of any sort this can be a great inspiration! Rating: - Very, very pleasantAn odd title for a review perhaps. But there is absolutely nothing to dislike about this album. There are no 'dud' tracks; the whole thing is a pleasure to listen to. I enjoyed the vocals, sometimes reminiscent of Underworld circa DubNoBassWithMyHeadMan, and the arrangements which, as opined elsewhere, were often like Daft Punk and Depeche Mode. Some of the tunes even had a bit of early New Order about them. However, and this is my main reservation, not a single one of the tracks was really earth shattering. The hair on the back of my neck never once stood on end. I enjoyed this enough though to see the band live, and wasn't disappointed. The bass was made a bit fatter, the beat a little more driving - obviously better for dancing to. Maybe ... Read More: Rating: - Somewhat MisunderstoodA lot of people seem a little too fixated on the hype that Hot Chip received last summer and have had one listen and grumble because it isn't the best album they've ever heard. Hot Chip take dated electro music; think kraftwerk, depeche mode and plenty of early 90s stuff, update it, soften it a touch and then repackage it in a much less pretentious way. Their is no big idea, no style that listeners attach themselves to, just some really nice, smooth electro tunes. The fact that they produced most of the album in a bedroom seems hard to believe at first but makes a lot of sense when you become conscious of the band's unassuming nature. Tracks like 'Colours' show a very melodic side to hot chip, the vocal mixes and soft keyboards ... Read More: |
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