Ep 26 - Hot Chip - Freakout / Release

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10/18/22 • 65 min

This Is Not Happening - An Album Of The Month Podcast

We're back again this month with our usual format. In Part 1 we go deep on Hot Chip's latest album, in Part 2 we play 'Spin It or Bin It', where we choose a theme and each bring our choice of tracks. This month the theme is 'Dance-Pop'.
Part 1 | Album of the Month | Hot Chip | Freakout/Release
It's Guy's choice this month and he chooses the one of his favourite band's latest release. It's always interesting when one of us chooses a band that they love and have loads of history with.
Listen to the album - Here
The chat focuses around our initial impressions, favourite tracks, the difficulty of maintaining relevance and engagement on your 8th album ... and we all have something to say on the sequencing of tracks on this album.
Guy has curated a 28 track playlist called 'Hot Chip's Hot Hits' - have a listen to it hereDuring the chat there were loads of references to Hot Chip side projects, here are a few links for you to check out;

The 2 Bears - Click Here
New Build - Click Here
Alexis Taylor - Click Here

Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | We all choose a Dance-Pop Track
In tribute to Hot Chip, the theme for Spin It or Bin It this month is Dance-Pop. Over the course of the month we all create a play list of our favourite Dance-Pop, a shortlist of 4 tracks and then choose a track to delight (or in my case annoy) the team. This month, the 4 tracks were ...

Nolan chose - Robyn | Dancing On My Own
Guy chose - Cassius | The Sound of Violence
Joey chose - The Knife | Pass This On
David chose - Soulwax | NY Excuse

The 16 track playlist of each of our 4 shortlisted tracks can be found here and it's a belter!
Next Month
I (Joey) will be running the show and hosting the discussion on Sudan Archive's 2nd album - Natural Brown Prom Queen
Other episodes of the pod and 10 years of the blog;
If you enjoyed this episode, please check out the others. If that's not enough for you then there's 10 years worth of music discussion on the blog at www.thisisnothappening.net, which runs alongside the podcast choices and much, much more. So check them out so to see what we like and where we clash, and comment if something catches your eye. We'd love to hear what you think.

We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look - https://thisisnothappening.net/

The 2 Bears - Click Here
New Build - Click Here
Alexis Taylor - Click Here

Nolan chose - Robyn | Dancing On My Own
Guy chose - Cassius | The Sound of Violence
Joey chose - The Knife | Pass This On
David chose - Soulwax | NY Excuse

We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look - https://thisisnothappening.net/

Previous Episode

Ep 25 - Steve Lacy - Gemini Rights

After a little summer break we're back! We get deep into our Album of the Month, Steve Lacy's Gemini Rights in Part 1. We dig a little deeper than most pods and make sure we've spent LOADS of time living with the album. In Part 2 we have one of the best 'Spin It or Bin It' that I can remember - we each bring a track and ask each other 'Spin It or Bin It?'
Part 1: Album of the Month - Steve Lacy's 'Gemini Rights'
It's David's choice this month and he chooses the intriguing 'Gemini Rights'. Its a tight, punchy album which gave us loads to discuss: Tik Tok, the tension between joyous music and often bitter lyrics, the influence of gender and sexuality on this album and the age of massive change that we're living in.
The chat references loads of music and we highly recommend that you check out the following if you're not familiar already;

Raphael Sadiq's 'Instant Vintage'
Stevie Wonder's 'Innervisions'
Frank Ocean's 'Channel Orange'
Prince's 'Purple Rain'
... and my big shout out - Serpentwithfeet's 'Deacon'

Part 2: Spin It or Bin It - New Music (tracks from June 2022 onwards)
In Part 2 we get into one of the best Spin It or Bin It? that we've had. We each bring a track that meets a different brief every month. This month is simple - 'New Music'. We then ask each other the binary question 'Spin It or Bin It?' and then choose a track of the month from the 4. Here's our choices ...

Guy's choice is Romare's 'Quiet Corners of My Mind'
Nolan's choice is Danger Mouse and Black Thought's 'The Darkest Part'
Joey's choice is Ela Minus and DJ Python's 'Parajos en Verano'
David's choice is Sudan Archive's 'NBPQ (Topless)'

Next Month
Guy will be running the show and hosting the discussion on Hot Chip's 'Freakout Release'.
Other episodes of the pod and 10 years of the blog;
If you enjoyed this episode, please check out the others. If that's not enough for you then there's 10 years worth of music discussion on the blog at www.thisisnothappening.net, which runs alongside the podcast choices and much, much more. So check them out so to see what we like and where we clash, and comment if something catches your eye. We'd love to hear what you think.

We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look - https://thisisnothappening.net/

Next Episode

Ep 27 | Sudan Archives | Natural Brown Prom Queen

Guess who's back. Back again. TINH's back. Tell a friend.
This month, in Part 1 we go deep on this month's Album of the Month by Sudan Archives. In Part 2 we play 'Spin It or Bin It', where we choose a theme and each bring our choice of tracks. This month the theme is 'Our own personal entrance music'.
Part 1 | Album of the Month | Sudan Archives | Natural Brown Prom Queen
It's my (Joey's) choice this month and we've gone with a belter of a sophomore album by Sudan Archives that easily claims the best titled album of the year 'Natural Brown Prom Queen'
If you've not heard it and this inspires you ...

Go listen to the album - Here
Go watch some videos - Here
Go buy some merch - here

(personally I've got my eye on the 'I just wanna get my titties out' t-shirt - here)

As always we kick off with what we expected from the album and what we got. Then we explore favorite tracks, sequencing of the album, why 'OMG Britt' nearly ruined the whole thing for Guy', the creative process of making the album and the influences that we hear.
We mention a few things that we'd highly recommend checking out, so here are the links;

A great interview with Fader - 'The World's most confident introvert'
Fader interview in Podcast form - here
The AWESOME Song Exploder episode on 'Selfish Soul' - here
And this incredible live performance - WOWZERS

Part 2 | Spin It or Bin It | 'Our own personal entrance music'
The theme for Spin It or Bin It is a bit different this month. We're choosing our 'Entrance Music' and describing the event or circumstances that we're entering. If that doesn't make too much sense, just listen to the episode! This month, the 4 tracks were ...

David chose - Adriano Celentano | L'Unica Chance (plus David's blog post)
Joey chose - Joey Valance and Brae (Feat. Logic) | Tanaka 2 (plus Joey's blog post)
Guy chose - The Beastie Boys | Sabotage (plus Guy's blog post)
Nolan chose - Macklemore and Ryan Lewis | Can't Hold Us (plus Nolan's blog post)

Next Month
The big one! The end of year review. Hold on tight. We count down our 10 favourite albums of the year, featuring lots of moaning about David's album scoring algorithm. We also present our tracks of the year. Can you sum up the year musically in one

We've been writing the blog for years come and have a look - https://thisisnothappening.net/