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Hot Chip

"Brothers"

by K. Ross Hoffman

Published: Apr 20, 2010


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Hot Chip's glorious new One Life Stand (Astralwerks) is full of unassumingly earnest, starry-eyed songs about the profundity of love and human connection; songs about commitment and contentment and taking care of stray cats. It's a total sudser, in the best possible way. But the part that really makes me well up, every time, is when Joe Goddard sings about playing video games with his friends. Despite its thumping synth-house underpinnings, "Brothers" has the austerity and hushed intimacy of a hymn. Melody-wise the song could hardly be more trivial, but that just makes its statement of wild, death-defying brotherly love ring all the more sweetly, heartbreakingly true.

Hot Chip plays the TLA on Sunday.

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