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| Made In The Dark | 
 enlarge | Artist: Hot Chip
Label: EMI Records
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 62
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.5
EAN: 5099951791728
ASIN: B000YW860A
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | Out At The Pictures | | • | Shake A Fist | | • | Ready For The Floor | | • | Bendable Poseable | | • | We're Looking For A Lot Of Love | | • | Touch Too Much | | • | Made In The Dark | | • | One Pure Thought | | • | Hold On | | • | Wrestlers | | • | Don't Dance | | • | Whistle For Will | | • | In The Privacy Of Our Love |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Hot Chip have always been the sort of band happy to flaunt their intelligence, but the smartest trick they pull on Made in the Dark is to show a little wisdom, too. 2006's The Warning was a fine record, albeit one sometimes difficult to take seriously thanks to its taste for pop pastiche--here's the Prince track, there's a 2-step garage track--or the occasional ironic wisecrack. On their third album, though, it's satisfying to report Hot Chip sound like no one but themselves. That is, shuffling, synthesiser-smeared electro-pop with a gooey emotional core and, in the shape of Alexis Taylor, one of the greatest white-boy soul voices since that of his hero, Green Gartside of Scritti Politti. "Ready for the Floor" sounds halfway between Detroit techno and the soundtrack to a Nintendo RPG, Taylor's clear, honest vocal reaching out hopefully: "I'm hoping by chance/You might take this dance", while the album's title track is a slow piano ballad that finds him laid blue over the ruins of a love affair. There is mischief, too of course: take "Wrestlers", a dinky R&B track where the group show off their knowledge of wrestling slang. Even when they're ready to rumble, though, Hot Chip show off the sort of emotion and elation we've rarely seen since the glory days of New Order, and that's high praise indeed. --Louis Pattison
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| Customer Reviews: Read 16 more reviews...
My first taste of Hot Chip May 17, 2008
This album has taken me by surprise. I didn't buy it for me but for the other half. Truth is though, many tracks have caught my ear and I've been playing it sneakily by myself too when no-one else is around, but don't tell her will you?!
You see, I wasn't really expecting an album displaying such a diverse range of electronic influence. Being a fan of Jarre and Kraftwerk, there is more than a nod and a wink to these classic artists here, as well as more contemporary influences such as Groove Armada and even The Streets.
All in all a great album. 4 stars!
 Not a worthy follow up March 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
To be quite honest, I don't really like this album that much. Its a pity, since the first album was really very good, and the second was really rather good too, but this time around it seems rather... boring. For one, it lacks a lot of the delicacy and finesse of the first album with a lot of the tracks feeling much more 'in your face' and faster paced. If you like the motion and delicate core of the other two albums, the first one especially, then you may be disappointed with this. Get 'Give Up', by the 'Postal Service' instead.
A lot of my disappointment may also be with the recording quality, which is far more dynamically compressed than the first album.
Still, its not actually bad, its a good album, it just doesn't live up to Hot Chips previously high standard.
 They've done it again. March 17, 2008
Yet again Hot Chip have pulled off an album of musical genius. Drifting between genres, and creating their own, they manage to create track after track of unique lyrics, beats, and melodies that somehow work together flawlessly. Be warned, it needs a few good listens, but i assure you once you have you'll be very glad you did.
 fade into the dark March 12, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
not sure what all the fuss is about this album!? Gave it the benefit of the doubt an have listened to it quite a number of times now. It does sound better loud but it still fails to 'grip me at least'.
maybe they're very good live, they would have to be.
its interesting how certain albums get so hyped whilst other offerings which are undoubtedlly 100 times better (IMHO)eg Clor (CLOR) and My Computer (Vulnerabilia) ( No CV) which would fit into the same musical genre pale into insignificance. a shame.
They just keep getting better. March 3, 2008
Hot Chip are a bit of an enigma to me. They continue to serve up nothing but classy, left-field electro-pop, and although there is nothing ground breaking on this latest release it remains an album which will be talked about years from now.
The reason I regard 'Made in the Dark' to be such an album is the simple song song structure, the catchy hooks, the 'wacky' lyrics and the involving vocals.
I was (and still am) a huge fan of their second album (The Warning.) I am not as keen on their debut (Comin' on Strong.) What worried me as I jumped head first into this latest album was that Hot Chip may have been done at two albums and that all subsequent release would be just trying to cash in on their name and not deliver any substance.
As with the fore-mentioned previous album, this record took a few listens to get into. But once you reach listen 3 or 4 you will be rewarded handsomely as the mood just envelopes you and you find yourself becoming so familiar with it that it feels like an old friend.
Where this album differs from it's predessesors is that this is more of a 'complete album' wheras the previous two had outstanding stand out tracks padded out with filler. There is little to no filler on 'Made in the Dark.'
This is not to say that there are not great tunes to be lifted from this album, far from it. Wrestlers, Out at the Pictures and Shake a Fist are are quality little numbers. As a complete record, however, i feel more rewarded when the album finishes that on their previous efforts.
Hot Chip remain an enigma to me. I only hope that they continue to do so by producing such high quality eletro pop as 'Made in the Dark.'
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