Hot Chip - Freakout/Release

Released 19th August 2022.

Hot Chip present their eighth album, Freakout/Release, via Domino.

Freakout/Release is another dizzying high in a multi-decade career thats seen Hot Chip continuing to innovate and develop a rich, resonant songcraft. And while they continue to operate at peak form, the album also feels like a new chapter for the group -a collection of flesh-and-blood songs that finds the band reaching into the darkness to emerge as a true creative unit, their gazes fixed positively on the future ahead.

The five piece - comprised of Owen Clarke, Al Doyle, Joe Goddard, Felix Martin and Alexis Taylor - wrote and recorded in the bands newly minted Relax & Enjoy studio in East London, a creative space that Al Doyle put together before and during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fittingly, harnessing Hot Chips irreplicable live energy in a studio space was in the front of the bands mind, as they found themselves particula