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May 12th, 2022 2:02am

If This Is Working, It Makes My Play Null And Void


Hot Chip “Down”

Alexis Taylor has a nice voice, but it runs a bit cold – a little distant, a little introverted for a guy fronting a dance band. That unlikely fit is a big part of what makes Hot Chip interesting, they’ve certainly cornered the market on making dance music by and for sensitive nerds rather than the sort of sexy extroverted people that a lot of dance music is implicitly for. “Down” contrasts Taylor’s voice with a much bolder vocal sample from an obscure Universal Togetherness Band funk track that was reissued by the Numero Group a while back. That vocal is hot and passionate – “you sure know how to break it all down!” – and it provides a hook and something for Taylor to react against. He’s basically taking the common trope of “working it” and pushing it to a self-aware extreme, of being willfully run ragged by a demanding partner. But it’s no complaint. This is a very subby song, and he’s absolutely loving it.

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