HOT CHIP

Break out the glowsticks and earnest chinstrokes, here come the Chipsters with their sixth album, their second for Domino after 2012's In Our Heads. It's a tough act to follow but Huarache Lights doesn't disappoint. It's very much in the vein of Over and Over or Shake a Fist, but lacking the urgency of say, Night and Day (how was that not a huge hit?). Here we have chunky '80s drums, a snatch of vocoder, bleeps, hooks a-plenty, a weird, weird old bassline from somewhere (Orbital perhaps?) and not so much a tune as an event. They're the Devo of the EDM world and they get the nod from me.

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Paul PLEDGER
25/02/2015