With their previous album (2006) Hot Chip managed to break through to a larger audience. The band played successfully at the big summer festivals and the videos of Boy From School and Over And Over were regularly seen on the clip channels. Successor Made In The Dark continues the line from their previous album. Hot Chip still cleverly mixes disco, synthi pop, electro and IDM. This is real 'intelligent
… dance music': it is smart and you can also dance to it. Ready For The Floor has also been released as a single and 12-inch. Another single could be Hold On. In that song Hot Chip sounds like the party bastard kids of and . Despite those influences, Hot Chip remains an English band through and through, perhaps this is due to the neat pronunciation of singer . Made In The Dark is a fascinating album that is both danceable and elaborate. (PdK)more
