ARTIST...: VA TITLE....: LateNightTales: Hot Chip YEAR.....: 2020 LABEL....: LateNightTales CAT.NO...: ALNLP56 GENRE....: Electronic TIME.....: 81:49 SIZE.....: 150.84 MB QUALITY..: 256kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo ENCODER..: LAME SOURCE...: Vinyl RLS.DATE.: 2020/11/01 WEBSITE..: https://www.discogs.com/release/15995268 TRACKLIST A1) (02:46) Christina Vantzou - At Dawn A2) (04:36) Hot Chip - Nothing's Changed A3) (06:24) Rhythm & Sound - King In My Empire A4) (06:10) Pale Blue - Have You Passed Through This Night B1) (04:41) Suzanne Kraft - Femme Cosmic B2) (04:34) Fever Ray - To The Moon And Back B3) (04:41) PlanningToRock - Much To Touch B4) (05:57) Charlotte AdigΘry - 1,618 C1) (04:05) Mike Salta - Hey Moloko C2) (04:01) Matthew Bourne - Somewhere I Have Never Travelled (For Coral Evans) C3) (03:28) Hot Chip - Candy Says C4) (05:19) Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - Who I Am And Why Am I Where I Am C5) (04:19) Beatrice Dillon - Workaround Two D1) (05:36) Hot Chip - Worlds Within Worlds D2) (04:53) Daniel Blumberg - The Bomb D3) (04:28) Nils Frahm - Ode D4) (04:03) Hot Chip - None Of These Things D5) (01:48) Neil Taylor - Finnegans Wake (Excerpt) In these strange and viral times, music may not be able to save but it can certainly salve; and weÆve never needed such unguents as we do now. Thank goodness for Hot Chip, then. If youÆve ever wondered what a bath full of ecstasy might actually sound like then step this way, take off your bathrobe and relax into this aural peregrination. Hot Chip were formed via the friendship between Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard with Al Doyle, Felix Martin, and Owen Clarke completing the line-up. Subsequently, theyÆve gone on to establish themselves as one of the UKÆs most interesting acts û including nominations for Grammies and Mercury Music Prizes û with music that is contemplative yet also ecstatic. The centrepiece of this mix are four new Hot Chip songs, including their reading of the VelvetsÆ æCandy SaysÆ whose lyric, ôbluebirds fly over my shoulderö melts perfectly into the electronic birdsong of Kaitlyn Aurelia SmithÆs æWho I Am & Why I Am Where I AmÆ. Keeping it in the family AlexisÆs father Neil elegantly delivers an extract of the syntactically tortuous Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. They have dug deep to winkle out some of the most interesting artists to emerge recently, from Beatrice Dillon, described by The Guardian as ôthe most thrilling new artist in electronic musicö; Euro-dub maestros Rhythm & SoundÆs elegant collaboration with Cornell Campbell, æKing In My EmpireÆ, while English composer Daniel BlumbergÆs heart-stoppingly beautiful æThe BombÆ is a tour-de-force. If this is a bath, then release yourself to its warmth; Epsom salts for the soul. Sink in, let yourself go. -Bill Brewster -