Hot Chip @ Terminal 5

Hot Chip
@ Terminal 5
New York, NY - April 12, 2008

Hot Chip have certainly made an exciting run so far in 2008, in support of their excellent new album, Made In The Dark, the follow-up to the stellar, just about classic The Warning. In their live milieu, these sneaky petes show off a sensational knack for percussive rhythm, the live physics of which not only benefited an otherwise increasingly disastrous set-up at Terminal 5, it overshadowed the band's bread and butter - techno-rock. Hot Chip still excels most, though, when they mix that electronic half-clubber, half-nerd thing with r & b, hip hop, and soul. The drums work best on show starter "Shake A Fist", the guitar works best on the new single "One Pure Thought", the electronics - the synth sounds and back beats - work best on "Over and Over", and Alexis Taylor's vocals work best on pretty much everything, but especially the ballads. For a genre that is really not covered on this blog, these guys have certainly - with their creativity and originality - made one hell of an impression.