September 19th, 2007 12:17pm
A Quick Once-Over
It Begins…
Matthew Perpetua: Oh, this Hot Chip song you sent over sounds good!
Matthew Harris: Did you get to the middle?
Perpetua: Not yet, just put it on.
Harris: The “sounds of the studio” part?
Perpetua: This is great — his voice is still dispassionate, but the music isn’t as emotionally flat. Oh, wow, just got to a really good part.
Soon…
Perpetua: OH MY GOD!!! Now I know what you’re talking about, the middle part! WOW! What got into them? They improved a LOT rather suddenly!
Harris: I think they are totally trying to take this into more of their live show. Their live show is definitely more uptempo. The last time I saw them, Alexis sang lines from “Temptation” and “Is It All Over My Face” over the loudest, most manic beats. It was like he was trying to seduce me.
Perpetua: These guys have seriously stepped up.
Harris: I just love that middle part. I keep listening to it like some Pavlovian dog wanting treats. It’s like, “La de dah, regular old Hot Chip, nothing that exciting … HOLY SHIT!!!”
Later…
Perpetua: Wow, that Hot Chip song just keeps getting better somehow.
Harris: Haha.
Perpetua: It’s always exciting when it makes that shift in the middle
Harris: You can hear the structure better after the first few listens.
Perpetua: I also love the first time the beat switches up and gets stronger. I thought that’s what you were talking about at first. But then it just gets so much more exciting! I’m so proud of them.
(Click here for the Hot Chip official site.)
9/19/07 2:12 pm
The structure and even the cadences of your dialogue appear to me to be a bowdlerized description of really satisfying sexual intercourse. Could that have something to do with the appeal of HC?
9/19/07 2:12 pm
The structure and even the cadences of your dialogue appear to me to be a bowdlerized description of really satisfying sexual intercourse. Could that have something to do with the appeal of HC?
9/19/07 2:24 pm
Do you have a copy of this song? They had it posted to their myspace but then took it down. I love this song and have been looking for it EVERYWHERE but can only find live versions that, while amazing, lack the quality I’m looking for.
9/19/07 2:24 pm
Do you have a copy of this song? They had it posted to their myspace but then took it down. I love this song and have been looking for it EVERYWHERE but can only find live versions that, while amazing, lack the quality I’m looking for.
9/19/07 2:25 pm
YAY! I’m so dumb that I missed that the mp3 is at the top of the page! YAY DUMBNESS!
9/19/07 2:25 pm
YAY! I’m so dumb that I missed that the mp3 is at the top of the page! YAY DUMBNESS!
9/19/07 8:14 pm
wow dude. good song. you posted a lot of good stuff this year i think
9/19/07 8:14 pm
wow dude. good song. you posted a lot of good stuff this year i think
9/20/07 3:14 am
New HC should be their best. Is it February already?
9/20/07 3:14 am
New HC should be their best. Is it February already?
9/20/07 7:34 am
The influence of Todd Rundgren reaches far and wide.
Tom.
9/20/07 7:34 am
The influence of Todd Rundgren reaches far and wide.
Tom.
9/21/07 12:10 am
this is so going in our first radio show, which i’m putting together right now and which you won’t be present for and which won’t be broadcast or streamed, but somehow is still “our radio show.”
so hotttt.
9/21/07 12:10 am
this is so going in our first radio show, which i’m putting together right now and which you won’t be present for and which won’t be broadcast or streamed, but somehow is still “our radio show.”
so hotttt.
9/22/07 5:52 pm
I am madly in love with that song after listening to it yesterday, thanks for sharing such awesome music.
9/22/07 5:52 pm
I am madly in love with that song after listening to it yesterday, thanks for sharing such awesome music.
9/23/07 4:56 am
Wow! LOVED this!
9/23/07 4:56 am
Wow! LOVED this!