A Long Way From Kansas: Double Vinyl LP

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Label: Domino
Release Date: 8th January

Hot Chip have been certified banger merchants for a couple of decades now, dancefloor monsters that still hit today, like they did yesterday and now they're carving out the disco for the end of the world on what they're calling their "most primal". 

A Long Way From Kansas, Hot Chip’s new album, finds them at their most primal. Paraphrasing The Wizard of Oz, the title is a nod towards Dorothy, her dog and the distance they needed to travel to get back home and find some sense of normality. The world seems to be spinning faster, its story harder to read. Deaths, wars for no reason, the climate catastrophe burning through the seasons. Reactive to all that bleakness, and echoing it with distortion and decay, the band’s ninth album finds its own way to celebrate life even as the edges all around it burn.

A beaming signal arriving just in time to remind the listener that no matter how bad the outside world is, there’s no place like home, whether that’s surrounded by like-minded souls on the dancefloor or closing the curtains in your own living room.

01 - Stuck Record - 04:22
02 - Waiting Around - 05:07
03 - Random Violence - 05:15
04 - The Mask Is Slipping - 03:13
05 - Splinter - 03:37
06 - Shortcut To Love - 08:27
07 - Me In Your Head (feat. Beth Ditto)  - 03:42
08 - Hook Me Up - 04:14
09 - Secular Hymns - 05:46
10 - The Garden (feat. Eddie Chacon) - 04:24
11 - Crushing - 07:04