Eight stu­dio albums in, Hot Chip remain as vital as ever and today they announce their first Best Of album, Joy In Rep­e­ti­tion, to be released Sep­tem­ber 5th.
 
Joy In Rep­e­ti­tion – the title alludes to both the lyrics of their career-defin­ing track and one of Alex­is Taylor’s favourite Prince songs – cap­tures some­thing ele­men­tal about the band: a fas­ci­na­tion with rhythm, but also the exu­ber­ant act of mak­ing those things, togeth­er, over and over and over and over and over. In anoth­er nod to Over and Over, the album’s art­work by Sir Peter Blake fea­tures a paint­ed mon­key with a minia­ture cym­bal.
 
Fol­low­ing Com­ing On Stron­ger­er, last year’s 20th anniver­sary reis­sue, Joy In Rep­e­ti­tion picks up where their 2004 debut left off, with Tay­lor, Joe God­dard, Owen Clarke, Al Doyle and Felix Mar­tin as a ful­ly realised group. Joy In Rep­e­ti­tion cov­ers the whole emo­tion­al expe­ri­ence of a Hot Chip album, from the bangers of Ready For The Floor, I Feel Bet­ter, Flutes and Over and Over to their more melan­cholic and ten­der moments found on the likes of Boy From School, Look At Where We Are and Melody of Love. The anthol­o­gy also fea­tures new song Devo­tion.

The video, direct­ed by Will Kin­drick and filmed in Japan, takes devo­tion to one’s craft down a dif­fer­ent tan­gent. Kin­drick says: “I’ve spent a lot of time shoot­ing in Japan recent­ly, and have become obsessed with keibi­in (Japan­ese secu­ri­ty guards). I was wait­ing for a train and noticed a sto­ic secu­ri­ty guard stand­ing on the plat­form, his arm extend­ed, robot­i­cal­ly wav­ing what looked like a lightsabre, and the most hyper-focused stare I’ve ever seen in my life. There was noth­ing behind those eyes but pure devo­tion to his craft. I start­ed think­ing about these hum­ble heroes hit­ting the streets every morning—rain or shine—guiding us through traf­fic, telling us where to park, pro­tect­ing us from obliv­i­ous­ly step­ping into active con­struc­tion zones. What about the indi­vid­ual under­neath the hel­met? This video is me pour­ing one out on the curb for the devot­ed, hard-work­ing keibi­in everywhere!”

Devo­tion clos­es the com­pi­la­tion and is a cel­e­bra­tion of the devo­tion to doing this project togeth­er,” says Tay­lor. “I think of Joe as being like Bri­an Wil­son, with this huge ded­i­ca­tion to find­ing how to make the most amaz­ing pop music,” he adds.

Hot Chip will cel­e­brate the release of Joy In Rep­e­ti­tion with a show at London’s Troxy on Sep­tem­ber 5th. 

Track­list­ing. Album art­work by Peter Blake
1. Ready For The Floor 
2. Boy From School 
3. One Life Stand
4. Night And Day
5. Flutes
6. Hun­gry Child
7. Over And Over
8. Pos­i­tive
9. Look At Where We Are
10. Need You Now

Hot Chip Online Web­site | Insta­gram | Tik­Tok | X | Face­book | YouTube

Joy In Rep­e­ti­tion is avail­able to pre-order on Dom­Mart-exclu­sive clear coloured vinyl (with stick­ers, repli­ca tick­et stub and link to exclu­sive archive live footage), indies-exclu­sive white coloured vinyl, stan­dard vinyl, CD and dig­i­tal­ly.
Pre-order: Dom­Mart | Dig­i­tal

 Pho­to: Louise Mason