Hot Chip - In Our Heads

Pitchfork“Hot Chip's world is a fucking blast...” It's a meditation on positivity, a hedonistic joyride that isn't afraid to get deep, and a reminder that any band-- any album, any song-- can be your life, even for just a moment. Hot Chip do this for themselves, but also, for us...

The Observer“An adventure...” Their fifth album opens with a joyous rebuttal of such cynicism – a surging, synth-driven hymn to the possibilities of pop music...

NME“They’ve done better...” There’s too much in Hot Chip’s head that’s merely pleasant. Lively and upbeat, but naggingly sterile. Tasteful and perfectly executed, but workmanlike. It will work in clubs and it’s lovable because it’s Hot Chip, but they’ve done better.

Clash Music“This one sees them packed off to the nursing home...” ‘Night And Day’ is an energetic disco satire ripe for the clubs. ‘Flutes’ is a lengthy progressive-house epic, but these are glimmers of liveliness on an otherwise decedent record...

allmusic“In Our Heads is Hot Chip's most direct album yet...” That Hot Chip manage to balance their kinetic and confessional sides so well here is no small feat, and In Our Heads is some of their finest and most accessible music...

The Independent“Among the finest things Hot Chip have ever achieved musically...” After the romanticism of One Life Stand and the playfulness of side-project The 2 Bears, it was difficult to know which direction Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard would take on the fifth Hot Chip album...

The Line of Best Fit“The five oddballs of Hot Chip are just too clever to play nice...” The great thing about Hot Chip – much like their unlikely namechecked heroes Yo La Tengo – is that they clearly love pop music...

BBC“Dance music with feelings...” In Our Heads is a record for all occasions, an album that balances sentiment and soul with an ever-evolving talent for constructing infectious pop hooks...

MusicOMH“The best album start-to-finish from Hot Chip...” It’s an impressive return from the quirky five-piece, topping their nearly brilliant fourth album in both scale and ambition...

Guardian“In purely musical terms, where they are now is somewhere special...” Hot Chip are clearly not the only artists in the world to boast wildly eclectic tastes, but what they're exceptionally good at is synthesising those tastes into an impressively sleek and streamlined sound...