Eight tracks deep into One Life Stand, Hot Chip delivers "We Have Love." I doubt you'll read anywhere that "We Have Love" is the standout moment on what is a decidedly solid album, but the song bears mention because it is the aural equivalent of Alvin & The Chipmunks' brains... on the Prodigy. That's the (as yet unmentioned) winning formula that makes Hot Chip, and One Life Stand in particular, palatable for such a widely diverse audience. Their electronic sensibilities appeal to danceheads, and yet the hyperkinesis is gentle enough to evoke the huggable nature of childhood ADHD. Slow-burner "Keep Quiet," allegedly a response to the guys being moved by Susan Boyle's dramatic turn on Britain's Got Talent, brings to mind the moody atmospherics of Massive Attack and Sneaker Pimps.
Massive Attack just released a video for the first track off of Heligoland on their blog and it is bound to turn a few heads. ”Paradise Circus” is a sultry track featuring Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star) that now has an even more sultry video to accompany it. When going to check it out one has to note that it is not as easy to share as most videos you find out there. This is most likely due to the EXPLICIT sexual content of the short film you will see before you. It is a look back through the eyes of Georgina Spelvin who is discussing what it was like to make the skin flick The Devil In Miss Jones. This clip looks like a James Bond film in the nude complete with snakes and is …
Despite keeping busy on the release front with a greatest hits collection and a number of film scores, it was six years ago that we welcomed a new Massive Attack studio LP to the world. After working on 2003’s 100th Window largely by himself, Robert “3D” Del Naja is reunited with Grant “Daddy G” Marshall on Heligoland, with the usual slate of high-profile guest vocalists including Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, Guy Garvey and Tunde Adebimpe this time around, in addition to long-term collaborator Horace Andy who has appeared on every Massive Attack album to date. Albarn also contributes bass to “Flat of the Blade” and keyboards on “Splitting the Atom” while Adrian Utley of Portishead plays guitar on “Saturday Come Slow.” Tim Goldsworthy of DFA fame, meanwhile, is also reported to have …
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