Hot Chip Drop Title Track Of Upcoming Album 'Freakout/Release'
Tuesday, 02 August 2022
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Pooneh Ghana
Hot Chip have revealed the title track from their upcoming album, 'Freakout/Release'.
Following the singles Eleanor and Down, the song utilises distorted vocoders over pulsing synths and thumping percussion, marking the third preview of their eighth full-length, which is scheduled to arrive on August 19 via Domino. Commenting on the song, frontman Alexis Taylor said:
"Freakout/Release is about pent-up energy and the need for release, and escape. It’s also about making sense of music, and at times being plagued by the thing you focus on - music never leaves my head for a second, which is usually a good feeling, but it can feel claustrophobic at times too.
"It’s also about finding your place in relation to music and to performing. The riff should feel brutal and dumb and elemental and Joe was thinking about Seven Nation Army and the simplicity of that swinging from quiet to loud and back and forth."
Hot Chip will play a short run of UK instore shows later in August, prior to four dates at London's O2 Academy Brixton as part of their European tour.
Hot Chip Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Thu August 18 2022 - KINGSTON Pryzm
Fri August 19 2022 - CHALK Brighton
Tue August 23 2022 - LONDON Rough Trade East
Wed September 21 2022 - LONDON O2 Academy Brixton
Thu September 22 2022 - LONDON O2 Academy Brixton
Fri September 23 2022 - LONDON O2 Academy Brixton
Sat September 24 2022 - LONDON O2 Academy Brixton
Sat October 01 2022 - BERLIN Tempodrom (Germany)
Sun October 02 2022 - COLOGNE Live Music Hall (Germany)
Mon October 03 2022 - BRUSSELS AB Ballroom (Belgium)
Wed October 05 2022 - UTRECHT Tivoli Ronda (Netherlands)
Sat October 08 2022 - PARIS Olympia (France)
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