Hot Chip - Made In The Dark (EMI)
Text: Phil Hebblethwaite
An album of ambition that is largely executed well. It ought to announce Hot Chip as leaders of the bazillion other eighties revival electro pop bands, but doesn't.
Singer Alex is too annoying and you realise quickly this is pretentious 'pop as art' that, ultimately, sounds dickless and hollow. If they wrote songs from their cocks as well as their heads, they might be onto something.
