Hot Chip share new song "Freakout/Release"
2nd August 2022
Today, Hot Chip are pleased to reveal the third cut from their upcoming new album Freakout/Release, due Aug 19th. The title track from their eighth record, the sound of “Freakout/Release” hits different to the previously shared singles “Eleanor” and “Down”.
“Freakout/Release” is more akin to their brilliant cover of Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” which is what kickstarted the writing process of the new LP. On the new song, the five-piece use distorted vocoders, crunchy guitars and pounding percussion to harness that irreplicable live energy. And as Alexis Taylor sings “I need an escape and some primitive healing”, he distils the themes of the album simply, “Life’s what you make it… Make a sound and throw the shapes”.
Talking about the song, Taylor says: “Freakout/Release is about pent-up energy and the need for release, and escape. It’s also about making sense of music, and at times being plagued by the thing you focus on - music never leaves my head for a second, which is usually a good feeling, but it can feel claustrophobic at times too. It’s also about finding your place in relation to music and to performing. The riff should feel brutal and dumb and elemental and Joe was thinking about Seven Nation Army and the simplicity of that swinging from quiet to loud and back and forth.”
Upcoming live dates
5th August – Junction 1 Summer Series, Glasgow
Thursday 18th August – Banquet @ PRYZM, Kingston
Friday 19th August - Resident @ Chalk, Brighton
Tuesday 23rd August - Rough Trade East, London (DJ set)
21st September – o2 Academy Brixton, London
22nd September – o2 Academy Brixton, London
23rd September – o2 Academy Brixton, London
24th September – o2 Academy Brixton, London
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Hot Chip Freakout/Release
Album | 19th August 2022
Freakout/Release is another dizzying high in a multi-decade career that’s 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.
Hot Chip Freakout/Release
Album | 19th August 2022
Freakout/Release is another dizzying high in a multi-decade career that’s 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.
