Hot Chip: Freakout/ Release review – trying hard to be funky

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The British dance-pop favourites make forays into the wilder side, but their mellow tempo prevails

, declares a shift towards proper shit-losing catharsis. “Wild, beast, freakout, release!” growls a vocoder as some stark electro-funk lurks beneath. A distorted guitar line completes the picture of a band throwing well-appointed tastefulness to the wind, querying their own love of music into the bargain. Co-producers Soulwax areSpoiler alert: it’s false advertising. Sure, some strides are made towards messiness.

But Hard to Be Funky, a lovely, downtempo glide that features the guest vocals of Lou Hayter, once of New Young Pony Club, nails Hot Chip’s dilemma with self-deprecating humour. “It’s hard to be funky when you’re not feeling sexy,” Goddard notes. “And it’s hard to feel sexy when you’re not very funky.”last year, you would have hoped some of that band’s capacity to mix bolder elements with cool production aplomb might have rubbed off.

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