Hot Chip have announced their new album, ‘Freakout/Release’.
The album is due for release on 19th August via Domino, and comes alongside a first taster from the record, opening track ‘Down’.
The first song the band worked on for the record, it’s based around a sample of Universal Togetherness band’s ‘More Than Enough’, and comes alongside a video directed by Douglas Hart and Steve Mackey.
Recorded at the band’s new Relax & Enjoy studio in East London, the album was particularly inspired by a cover of Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’ that has become a staple of their live set. “The idea of being out of control is always there in dance music, in a positive sense,” Al Doyle explains.
“By the time we were able to be back together, we were turning on a tap and having a lot of ideas being poured out quite quickly” reveals Alexis Taylor.
Hot Chip will celebrate the album with a four night stand at London’s Brixton Academy between 21st and 24th September. General sale tickets will be available from 22nd April at 9am, with a pre-sale starting the day before for those that pre-order the album.
The tracklisting for ‘Freakout/Release’ reads:
- Down
- Eleanor
- Freakout/Release
- Broken
- Not Alone
- Hard To Be Funky feat. Lou Hayter
- Time
- Miss The Bliss
- The Evil That Men Do feat. Cadence Weapon
- Guilty
- Out Of My Depth
