Hot Chip, Spiritualized And This Heat Come Together

Written by the B&B Crew Monday, 07 February 2011 16:30

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Hot Chip and Spiritualized, aka About Group will release a new LP next April on Domino Records, one that has been put together under remarkable circumstances...

About Group consists out of Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, Spiritualized’s John Coxon, This Heat’s Charles Hayward and jazz pianist Pat Thomas. The first cooperation of the four left quite an impression and got them to perform on Glastonbury and Omette Coleman’s Meltdown Festival. For this new one expectations are even higher, with it being recorded at Abbey Road.

Most of the new material has been written by Taylor, but he never explained or bothered to explain them to his band members. He just played his piano/vocal demos and left the rest of the group to improvise on that. The press release explains “The idea was that no one band member would know the songs well enough to have specific parts,or be prevented from playing something like the first ideas that came into their head.”

The whole LP was recorded in a single day, after which About Group spent three more days in the studio to mix it all together. The result is described as “a collection of songs created in an atmosphere of close listening and instinctive group interplay”. Sweet!

About Group’s latest LP will be released April 26^th on Domino Records.

Tracklist:
1. Married To The Sea (a)
2. Don’t Worry
3. With Each New Day
4. Repair Man
5. Lay Me Down
6. A Perspective
7. There’s a Way To End This Run of Doubt
8. A Sinking Song
9. Nothing But Words
10. You’re No Good
11. Rough and Smooth
12. Start and Complete
13. Dreamt I Saw You Late Last Night
14. Married To The Sea (b)