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Hot Chip to release eighth album in August
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 20 April 2022
Hot Chip have announced that they will release their eight studio album, ‘Freakout/Release’, this summer, and have also shared new single ‘Down’.
Having been kept separate by the pandemic, once the group found themselves back together they began throwing down ideas “in a natural way, without too much discussion or a grand plan”, says Joe Goddard. “We were living through a period where it was very easy to feel like people were losing control of their lives in different ways. There’s a darkness that runs through a lot of those tracks”.
‘Down’ was the track that kicked off the writing process, and is built around a sample of Universal Togetherness Band’s ‘More Than Enough’.
The album is out on 19 Aug, and the band will take up residency at Brixton Academy for four nights from 21-24 Sep. Tickets go on general sale on 22 Apr.
Watch the video for ‘Down’ here:
