HOT CHIP Announce New Album + Watch Music Video for “Huarache Lights”

Tue Feb 10 09:36:51 CST 2015

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NEW ALBUM, WHY MAKE SENSE? RELEASED ON MAY 19th

“HUARACHE LIGHTS” AVAILABLE NOW; PRESS HERE<http://po.st/HuaracheLights> TO WATCH THE VIDEO

WORLDWIDE LIVE DATES ANNOUNCED

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Photo credit Steve Gullick

“Few bands can fill a dance floor with melody, soul and electro intensity like Hot Chip. There’s unguarded joy in the British quintet’s mix of synthed-up grooves and pop songfulness on tracks…” – Rolling Stone

“Hot Chip is very much so a modern pop-anthem machine with the rare ability to make a mess of creativity and control it in the form of infectious, intricately arranged dance floor standards.” – Paste Magazine

Hot Chip will release their sixth album and second for Domino, Why Make Sense?, on May 19th. Recorded in Oxfordshire and London and produced by Hot Chip with Mark Ralph, Why Make Sense? is the band’s follow up to 2012’s critically acclaimed In Our Heads.

Watch the accompanying video for the Why Make Sense? album opener, “Huarache Lights”, based around a light installation by artist Robert Bell and filmed in one take by Andy Knowles, PRESS HERE<http://po.st/HuaracheLights>.

Why Make Sense? will be available on all standard formats as well as a Special Edition available for a limited time only, featuring a bonus Separate EP with 4 new tracks recorded during the album sessions. Pre-order the album from Dom Mart HERE<http://po.st/WhyMakeSenseDM> and via iTunes HERE<http://po.st/WhyMakeSense>. All pre-orders come with an instant grat of Huarache Lights.

Why Make Sense? tracklisting is as follows:

1. Huarache Lights

2. Love Is The Future

3. Cry For You

4. Started Right

5. White Wine and Fried Chicken

6. Dark Night

7. Easy To Get

8. Need You Now

9. So Much Further To Go

10. Why Make Sense?

Separate EP:
1. Burning up
2. Separate
3. Move With Me
4. Re-harmonize

Hot Chip will be touring the US, UK & Europe in support of Why Make Sense? this May and June including shows in Portland, Denver, Minneapolis, Boston, Los Angeles and more. Tickets for select US shows go on sale on February 13th and all UK shows on February 14th.  The band are also performing at Sasquatch Festival in May and at Governors Ball in New York City in June. More live dates to be announced soon.

Full worldwide live dates with ticket links are as follows:

Feb 12                         Gateshead, UK: BBC Radio 6 Music Festival (Sold Out)
May 12                        Glasgow, UK @ Glasgow School of Art<http://www.gigsinscotland.com>
May 13                        Manchester, UK @ Gorilla<http://gigst.rs/HotChip>
May 14                        London, UK @ Oval Space<http://gigst.rs/HotChip>
May 17                        Brussels, Belgium @ Les Nuits Botanique<http://www.botanique.be>
May 19                        Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Tolhuistuin<http://www.paradiso.nl/web/Over-Paradiso>
May 20                        Berlin, Germany @ Heimathafen<http://www.eventim.de/hot-chip>
May 21                        Paris, France @ La Gaite Lyrique<http://gaite-lyrique.net/>
May 25                       George, WA @ Sasquatch Festival<http://bit.ly/1zWPLLB>
May 26                      Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater<http://bit.ly/HotChipRosel2015>
May 28                      Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre<http://bit.ly/1GqDh7Z>
May 30                      Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue<http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/15004E3DC3334F23>
May 31                       Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom<http://bit.ly/1yYP602>
June 2                       Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre<http://tktwb.tw/1u9LB6U>
June 3                       Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall<http://bit.ly/1K1Fzc5>
June 4                       Boston, MA @ House of Blues - Boston<http://bit.ly/1J8cSd4>
June 5                       Washington, DC @ Echostage<https://www.etix.com/ticket/online/performanceSearch.jsp?performance_id=6114258&cobrand=first-avenue>
June 5 – 7                 New York, NY @ The Governors Ball Music Festival<http://tinyurl.com/4pc384s>
June 18                       Barcelona, Spain @ Sonar By Day Festival<http://sonar.es/en/pg/tickets>
June 19                       Barcelona, Spain @ Sonar By Night Festival<http://sonar.es/en/pg/tickets>
August 11                  Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre (with !!!)
Aug 21                         Crickhowell, UK @ Green Man Festival<http://www.greenman.net/>

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Video still from Huarache Lights

Hot Chip are Joe Goddard, Alexis Taylor, Felix Martin, Al Doyle and Owen Clarke.

www.hotchip.co.uk<http://www.hotchip.co.uk/> - www.dominorecordco.com<http://www.dominorecordco.com/>

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