Hot Chip : Down With Prince EP

The splodge-funk, bed-hop movement starts here...

[a]Hot Chip[/a] are an “R&Bedroom electro team” from London who make beats with biscuit tins and sing about blasting [a]Yo La Tengo[/a] tunes around the streets of Putney. Their relationship with sanity is best described as ‘strained’, and we haven’t even got to this genius EP yet. Coming across like The DIY Neptunes with their humour glands going haywire, ‘Down With Prince’ is a lo-fi fry-up of slap-bass, wiggly electronics and stop-start drum loops. It’s as funny as it is fabulous and directs a torrent of rage at name-checking hipsters (“I’m sick of mother-fuckers tryin’ to tell me that they’re down with Prince,” they seethe). Elsewhere, we get booty-shakin’ beat mayhem (‘The Ass Attack’), slick Gameboy-soul (‘Sexual Chocolate’) and the glorious sound of a group treading brave new ground, quite possibly without even meaning to.

Tim Jonze

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