Ep 26 - Hot Chip - Freakout / Release

We're back again this month with our usual format. In Part 1 we
go deep on Hot Chip's latest album, in Part 2 we play 'Spin It or
Bin It', where we choose a theme and each bring our choice of
tracks. This month the theme is 'Dance-Pop'.

Part 1 | Album of the Month | Hot Chip |
Freakout/Release

It's Guy's choice this month and he chooses the one of his
favourite band's latest release. It's always interesting when one
of us chooses a band that they love and have loads of history
with. 

Listen to the album - Here

The chat focuses around our initial impressions, favourite
tracks, the difficulty of maintaining relevance and engagement on
your 8th album ... and we all have something to say on the
sequencing of tracks on this album.

Guy has curated a 28 track playlist called 'Hot Chip's Hot Hits'
- have a listen to it here
During the chat there were loads of references to Hot
Chip side projects, here are a few links for you to check out;


The 2 Bears - Click Here

New Build - Click Here

Alexis Taylor - Click Here



Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | We all choose a Dance-Pop
Track
In tribute to Hot Chip, the theme for Spin It or Bin
It this month is Dance-Pop. Over the course of the month we all
create a play list of our favourite Dance-Pop, a shortlist of 4
tracks and then choose a track to delight (or in my case annoy)
the team. This month, the 4 tracks were ...
Nolan chose - Robyn | Dancing On My OwnGuy chose - Cassius |
The Sound of ViolenceJoey chose - The Knife | Pass This OnDavid
chose - Soulwax | NY Excuse 

The 16 track playlist of each of our 4 shortlisted tracks can be
found here and it's a belter!

Next Month

I (Joey) will be running the show and hosting the discussion
on Sudan Archive's 2nd album - Natural Brown Prom
Queen

Other episodes of the pod and 10 years of the blog;

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that's not enough for you then there's 10 years worth of music
discussion on the blog at www.thisisnothappening.net, which runs
alongside the podcast choices and much, much more. So check them
out so to see what we like and where we clash, and comment if
something catches your eye. We'd love to hear what you
think. 


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