HOT CHIP

« A Long Way From Kansas », Hot Chip's new album, reveals the band at their most primal. Paraphrasing « The Wizard of Oz », the title references Dorothy, her dog, and the distance they had to travel to return home and regain some semblance of normality. The world seems to be spinning faster and faster, its history becoming harder and harder to decipher. Deaths, pointless wars, the climate catastrophe devastating the seasons. Reacting to all this gloom, and echoing it through distortion and decay, the band's ninth album finds its own way to celebrate life even as, all around, boundaries go up in flames.

Visionary electronic band Hot Chip formed in 2000, as each member basked in the warmth of the millennium's afterglow. Over the days, months, and years that followed, Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard, Owen Clarke, Al Doyle, and Felix Martin channeled love and harmony through their craft, creating a body of work spanning eight albums that brings together mind, heart, and body. Yet, when they arrived at Joe and Al's studio, « Relax and Enjoy », in East London early this year to record their new album, *A Long Way From Kansas*, the band members felt compelled to confront these stories unfolding before their eyes and these lingering questions.

Alexis Taylor : « A Long Way From Kansas » reflects the general feeling that the world we live in — the one in which we recorded our album — is particularly harsh, discordant, violent, and depressing. None of that is perhaps anything new, and it doesn't mean every song is about the world, politics, or genocide, but it was an inescapable backdrop during the creation of this record. We explore a certain darkness; it's our way of saying: “Look, we know we're in a pretty dark place.” »

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