“Hot Chip bring the noise on Freakout/Release”
“Two decades in, Hot Chip captures the energy of their live shows in the studio—and on a dance floor near you”
“Treating music as something like a homeopathic remedy, Freakout/Release joins doubt with deliverance over the cleansing pulse of a disco beat.”
“Before things get bland in the second half, Freakout / Release dishes out Hot Chip's best material in a while.”
“upbeat dancefloor dons lean into the darkness”
“Indefatigably pleasant, Hot Chip have long specialised in steady-state club pop, powered more by melancholy than abandon. The title track of their eighth album, the promisingly named Freakout/Release, declares a shift towards proper shit-losing catharsis. “Wild, beast, freakout, release!” growls a vocoder as some stark electro-funk lurks beneath. A distorted guitar line completes the picture of a ”
