The Thousands

Hot Chip with their laptop be-bop synths and soulful lyrics are too good to throw to the seagulls. Their album COMING ON STRONG is not as in your face as the title suggests. Although less aggressive than LCD Soundsystem, tracks such as ‘Down With Prince’ still allow comparisons to be drawn.

**Like most other electro-this-or-that groups this release is not without its irony fuelled sounds and the lyrics of vocalist Joe Goddard prove that he is the sweetest sounding hip hop artist around, rhyming in baritone, like Simon and Garfunkel meets 50 cent. Cheeky comparisons aside, Hot Chip’s other influences include Devo, Dr. Dre, Stevie Wonder and Prince and although obviously retrospective they manage to maintain relevance as well as a contemporary sound.

Hot Chip, cover it in sauce, sprinkle it with salt – just don’t let it go cold.

By Jan Bunny