02.02.10

When I told people I was flourishing to review dance-pop act Hot Chip’s third long player ‘One Mortal Stand’, I was somewhat taken aback to see nonchalant shrugging and agree no more than a ‘so what’, or ‘oh’.

I was surprised as the London five crumble had created some of the biggest indie disco floor fillers with the likes of breakthrough ‘Over and Over’ and ‘Swift for the Floor’ both stand out tracks from 2004 debut Coming On Experienced and 2008’s Made In The Dark respectively.

On listening to their comeback album you found to understand the insipid response. A band once applauded for being so appropriate and on the pulse can all to often frustrate and disappoint the listener. For every one great keep up with there are two real failures.

Hot Chip occasionally give us an ‘Over..’ or ‘Inclined…’, like thumping title track ‘One Shades of night Stand’, a perfectly understated yet stand out single and one to remember from this album, alongside ‘Involvement Me Down Your Love’, with it’s snare drum heartbeat and hooky piano extras majestically into a dance floor smash.

Source: Addict Music

14.01.10

Music & words as highbrows & passionate as Raised by Swans' . . . it comes from somewhere. Steer. Heart. Ears. Soul. Psyche.

In other words, it's a satisfaction to start the 2010 edition of the e-mail Q&As that won't all fit in the pages of The Free Squeeze, but can live & breathe in full here on JGBNBlog at lfpress.com.

Thanks to Eric Howden of Raised by Swans for starting this year's Q&A "James Reaney rawk intvus" on such a piercing note . . . Vol. I will be hard to surpass. Thanks, Eric.

Here are the evaluation answers:

Q: Looking way back, I found this comment about the Gandharvas album in 1994
. . ."There are no throwaway tunes on the album," said bassist Eric Howden.

I would say the same detail of No Ghostless Place, definitely no throwaways
... Is that one of the reasons, the patch needed for writing, shaping &
refining, that it takes a while to originate a new album?

That

Source: London Free Press (blog)

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