Hot Chip are releasing a new album called Freakout/Release on August 19. They've already shared the singles "Down" and "Eleanor," and today they've put out the restless title track which features heavy vocoder use, urgent new-wave synths, and delirious guitar cries. The lyrics wrestle with the dopamine surge music can provide us with while also serving as an uncomfortable obsession.
“'Freakout/Release' is about pent-up energy and the need for release, and escape," Alexis Taylor said about the song. "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.”
Listen to "Freakout/Release" below, and pre-order the album here.
