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The Warning | 
 enlarge | Artist: Hot Chip
Label: EMI
Category: Music
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 25022
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
UPC: 094635664027
EAN: 0094635664027
ASIN: B000EF7W3O
Release Date: May 22, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Careful | | • | And I Was A Boy From School | | • | Colours | | • | Over And Over | | • | Just Like We Breakdown | | • | Tchaparian | | • | Look After Me | | • | Warning | | • | Arrest Yourself | | • | So Glad To See You | | • | No Fit State | | • | Won't Wash |
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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
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8/10. "Hot Chip will break your legs, snap off your head" February 22, 2008
Demob Happy (London / Grenoble)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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... January 19, 2008
A.A.C.M (Essex)
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 October 20, 2007
Joshua E. Mandell (UK)
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!
Very, very pleasant July 27, 2007
Colin Lodge
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
An odd title for a review perhaps. But there is absolutely nothing to dislike about this album. There are no 'dud' tracks; the whole thing is a pleasure to listen to. I enjoyed the vocals, sometimes reminiscent of Underworld circa DubNoBassWithMyHeadMan, and the arrangements which, as opined elsewhere, were often like Daft Punk and Depeche Mode. Some of the tunes even had a bit of early New Order about them.
However, and this is my main reservation, not a single one of the tracks was really earth shattering. The hair on the back of my neck never once stood on end.
I enjoyed this enough though to see the band live, and wasn't disappointed. The bass was made a bit fatter, the beat a little more driving - obviously better for dancing to. Maybe the album would have benefitted from the same treatment.
All in all, this CD is certainly worth buying. But don't spend your last penny on it.
Somewhat Misunderstood May 24, 2007
Simbob (Leeds / London, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A lot of people seem a little too fixated on the hype that Hot Chip received last summer and have had one listen and grumble because it isn't the best album they've ever heard.
Hot Chip take dated electro music; think kraftwerk, depeche mode and plenty of early 90s stuff, update it, soften it a touch and then repackage it in a much less pretentious way. Their is no big idea, no style that listeners attach themselves to, just some really nice, smooth electro tunes. The fact that they produced most of the album in a bedroom seems hard to believe at first but makes a lot of sense when you become conscious of the band's unassuming nature.
Tracks like 'Colours' show a very melodic side to hot chip, the vocal mixes and soft keyboards make for a really upbeat and mellow song. The flipside would be a track like 'Over and Over', one of the anthems of last year. Catchy, sexy and very club-friendly. Other highlights are the thoughtful 'Boy from School' and the beautifully sleepy title track. Through these songs they show their variety, going from almost rocky riffs through tinkling glockenspiels, Daft Punk house beats and entwined vocal melodies. What you are left with, though, is a very original brand of smooth, almost sleepy electronica.
Although Hot Chip are fantastic, it is true that this isn't an 'amazing' album. Tracks like 'Careful' seem awkward and whilst they are blatantly well-written, don't quite fit with the rest of the album. It's frustrating because it gives you a real taste of what Hot Chip are fast becoming but also reminds you that they aren't quite there yet. If all goes to plan you can't help buf feel that the next album should be pretty spectacular.
And for anyone who has heard a couple of tracks but doesn't really get what the fuss is all about; give them a proper go. I find that their music grows and expands with every listen.
S
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