aaamusic | On 01, Mar 2012

Hot Chip have announced plans for their highly anticipated fifth album, In Our Heads, set for release in the UK on June 11^th, 2012 (June 12^th in the US). Recorded in London and self-produced, with additional production and engineering by Mark Ralph, In Our Heads is the band’s follow up to 2010’s intoxicating One Life Stand and their first LP for Domino. In Our Heads will be available on CD (WIGCD293), LP (WIGLP293) and digitally (WIG293D).

 

The collective talents of Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard, Alexis Taylor, Felix Martin, Al Doyle and Owen Clarke have provided a consistently stellar output which continues to evolve with a deceptive effortlessness. While their lexicon of influences includes a diverse mix of soul, R&B, gospel, Detroit House, disco and funk, Hot Chip have created a uniquely identifiable sound. Since 2004, they’ve released a string of ambitious and creatively bold albums of soulful, lyrical and melodic electronic pop. Their impressive debut Coming On Strong was followed in 2006 by the brilliantly buoyant The Warning, which earned the band a prestigious Mercury Music Prize nomination. 2008’s Made In The Dark spawned an international mega hit in “Ready For The Floor”, which picked up a Grammy nomination for ‘Best Dance Recording’. With In Our Heads, an unadultered delight of an album bursting with dynamic floor fillers, euphoric earworms and verbose synth-fuelled love songs, Hot Chip cement their position as the world’s most talented electro-romantics.

 

In Our Heads track list:

1. Motion Sickness                          7. Flutes

2. How Do You Do                            8. Now There Is Nothing

3. Don’t Deny Your Heart                9. Ends Of The Earth

4. Look At Where We Are               10. Let Me Be Him

5. These Chains                                11. Always Been Your Love

6. Night And Day

 

Confirmed UK & European live shows with ticket links (more dates coming soon!):

 

FRI 15 JUNE – LONDON, LOVEBOX

SAT 16 JUNE – BARCELONA, SPAIN – SONAR

FRI 27 JULY – DORSET, CAMP BESTIVAL

FRI 10 AUG – HAMBURG, GERMANY – DOCKVILLE

SAT 11 AUG – SAALBURG, GERMANY – SONNEMONDSTERNE

SUN 2 SEPT – STRADBALLY, IRELAND – ELECTRIC PICNIC – on sale date TBC

THU 6 SEPT – ISLE OF WIGHT, BESTIVAL