Product Description

'The Warning' is the second album from London outfit Hot Chip. Continuing with the sound that graced their 2005 debut 'Coming On Strong' the boys manage to create a strange mix ofhip hop, funk and indie pop, taking influence from many genres and artists including Prince, Public Enemy, Brian Wilsonand The Neptunes. The album includes the singles 'Boy From School' and the UK Top 40 hit 'Over And Over'.

Track Listing

1. Careful
2. And I Was A Boy From School
3. Colours
4. Over And Over
5. Just Like We Breakdown
6. Tchaparian
7. Look After Me
8. Warning
9. Arrest Yourself
10. So Glad To See You
11. No Fit State
12. Won't Wash

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21229 in Music
• Released on: 2006-05-22
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
The second album from Hot Chip, The Warning sees these inspired pop alchemists pull off some truly devious musical juxtapositions. Scholars of music from Timbaland to Stevie Wonder to the Aphex Twin, this South London quartet make quirky, ideas-packed vocal electronica perpetually veering between moments of bliss, humour, and sheer sonic mentalism - take the opening "Careful", vocalists Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard sweetly harmonising "Every year, exactly this time of year/They float a balloon up into the air", as the tune leapfrogs along on the sort of demented breakbeat rave seldom seen outside a Squarepusher record. Luckily, Hot Chip know enough not to sabotage all their elegant pop moments. "Boy From School" cribs deliciously from Stardust's robo-Balearic anthem "Music Sounds Better With You", while "Over And Over" ("Like a monkey with a miniature cymbal/The joy of repetition really is in you") is bouncy testament to the joy of dumb, fun dance music. Further in, too, there's sweet moments like "Look After Me", an R&B-tinged plea to an ex-lover, that sees these clever-clever white boys succeed in getting sentimental without resorting to irony. A dream synthesis of warmth and intelligence. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

8/10. "Hot Chip will break your legs, snap off your head"
Genre-bending Hot Chip have not only released some of the singles of the year but one of its best albums. As with Gorillaz and Gnarls Barkley recently, mid-way into the `noughties' we are starting to see some real wit and invention in pop music that may come to define the decade. `The Warning' finds them putting heart and soul into their curious mish-mash of folk whimsy, house and electronica. For all the sonics and low-fi trickery, and the comedy lyrics, there is beauty and genuinity shining throughout. Their songs are unconventionally tangential, with phases and subtexts, but pulled off with a playful insouciance that belies some of the technical brilliance.

After the abrasive aural assault of the opener `Careful' is the brilliant single `And I was a boy from school'. Its folksy swoon and off-beat lyrics are delivered over cheekily Balearic, Daft Punk-esque house loops to fantastic effect. Colours is a sweet, gracefully-building ballad with lovely twinkly electronic embellishments. The one-of-a-kind dancefloor masterpiece `Over and Over' is an obvious highlight and needs no introduction here, while `(Just Like We) Breakdown' is the kind of emotive electronic pop that Junior Boys might make if they had a little funk (and some backbone). The infectious but deeply silly `Tchaparian' describes drunken flights over Timbaland electro-funk, but its multiple parts are jarringly uneven where its neighbouring tracks sustain their moods more economically. `Look After Me' is a unashamedly soppy accoustic ballad, which totally gets away with its cheeky soul parody, while title track threatens to "break your legs, snap off your head" over a celestial groove.

Signed to DFA in the States, this album will inevitably draw comparisons between Hot Chip and LCD Soundsystem. But while James Murphy's knowingly `cool' musical references can sometimes come across as overly esoteric, Hot Chip win you over with charm and an English pop sense (of humour) and sensibility. Great fun.

In a word, dance pop at it's peak of eccentricity...
There's something about us Brits. We are almost renowned and indeed, revel in the fact that we can be eccentric little mukkers sometimes. You wouldn't, for example, see the Pussycat Dolls or Beyonce vamping it up with the horse's tail Alison Goldfrapp is so often seen wearing in their live sets, would you?

And in terms of our music, we certainly don't get more eccentric and lively than London new rave five piece Hot Chip. With their third album, "Made In The Dark" waiting in the wings for release and new single "Ready For The Floor" all over the radio like a rash, I felt it only necessary to revisit one of 2006's greatest dance pop albums - the Mercury Prize nominated "The Warning".

One of the great things about this album is the fact that, unlike some of the other recent, under par efforts from the more avant garde torch bearers of British dance (yes, Calvin Harris and Chemical Brothers, I'm looking at you) Hot Chip make the job of making an album such as theirs look like an easy job. Each song on here is so delightfully addictive and cleverly structured - cases in point for me being the hit single "Over And Over", the Kate Bush-esque ambience of "Colours" and "Look After Me" and the hard hitting big bass vibes of the album's opener "Careful".

Everything is so immediate, yet it doesn't feel like it should be classed as any one particular style of music. In a word, Hot Chip are their own style, for which they should be duly credited.

hot for hot chip
I went into Virgin the other day heard the first minute of a song from the album being played. I asked a staff member what it was and they of course said "Hot Chip". I instantly bought the cd and before this cd i had never owned another of the electronica/rock genre [other than massive attack and portishead but Hot Chip are completley different and i struggled to get into those artists].

This has opened my eyes into a whole new wonderful genre and im loving it, also listening to simular artists such as Postal Service.


If you want something new to listen to and you dont mind this type of music GO FOR IT.

If you are involved in music engineering of any sort this can be a great inspiration!