Hot Chip / Coming on Strong
Artist Hot Chip
Album Title: Coming on Strong
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Ambient/Dream Pop
Format CD
Released 11/29/2005
Label Astralwerks Records
Catalog No ASW 48102
Bar Code No 0 94634 81022 7
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Take Care (4:05)
(Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor)
2. The Beach Party (4:01)
(Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor)
3. Keep Fallin' (4:48)
(Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor)
4. Playboy (5:33)
(Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor)
5. Crap Kraft Dinner (6:34)
(Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor)
6. Down with Prince (3:17)
(Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor)
7. Bad Luck (4:03)
(Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor)
8. You Ride, We Ride, in My Ride (5:03)
(Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor)
9. Shining Escalade (5:11)
(Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor)
10. Baby Said (4:56)
(Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor)
11. One One One (3:38)
(Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor)
12. A-B-C (4:33)
(Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor)
13. Hittin Skittles (4:31)
(Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor)
14. From Drummer to Driver (4:23)
(Joe Goddard & Alexis Taylor)
Date Acquired 10/13/2009
Personal Rating
Acquired from Amazon
Purchase Price 11.47
Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Johnny Loftus
On Coming on Strong, Hot Chip access the same wry, purposely casual sound that permeated the Beta Band's early material. Frail keyboard melodies play out over amateurish drum programming, with their lyrics a mix of winking boasts and the afterimages from a thousand stoned listens to old Stevie Wonder and Prince records. The sound works on "Keep Fallin'," "Beach Party," and -- shocker -- "Down with Prince" (a song made to do the robot to if there ever was one). Joe Goddard and Alexis Taylor know they'll never be Prince, never be Stevie. So they use awkwardness to their advantage, couching every reference and blurping bass lick in half-seriousness. "You Ride, We Ride, in My Ride" sounds really unfinished, with weird gaps between the harmonies and vintage keys. It could be a bunch of guys trying earnestly to write a Super Furry Animals song but failing, to hilarious result. And yet, when its rhythms pick up, the song becomes something listenable and even fun, its titular catch phrase floating over the simplistic music like rap lyrics used casually between friends. This is endearing -- Hot Chip's sense of humor is as contagious as their knack for reinvention is obvious. But those traits can't make Coming on Strong sound any less unfinished or even tossed off at times.
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