Half cover, half remix, not so good. I’ve been critical of Hot Chip’s quirky cover version tendencies in the past. As inventive as the group’s own music can be, their covers seem to inevitably suffer from an overdose of irony—as if someone is mimicing Hot Chips light and airy electro-pop without having actually heard the group. Nevermind that the group’s last album, Made In The Dark, showed that they have real balls.

This cover of Joy Division’s ‘Transmission,’ off the upcoming Heroes charity album (we heard Lily Allen cover The Clash ‘Straght To Hell’ just yesterday) things start off promising, with a mutant manipulation of Ian Curtis’ original vocal. But then it’s back to Hot Chip’s old tricks. Someone should sample the Curtis sample and do something cool with it.

DOWNLOAD: Hot Chip ‘Transmission’ (Joy Division Cover)

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