Hot Chip/Grosvenor, Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, May 24

they excel when they combine the huge club beats and electro revelry of Daft Punk with simple, memorable melodies and vocal mantras.

Article by Milo McLaughlin | 15 Jun 2006
Grosvenor (2/5) doses us with irony laden dollops of white soul cheese over a sleazy backing track. Like Har Mar Superstar or Beck doing the slick, white R & B-lite of Midnite Vultures, he is entertaining but slightly hollow.

It makes sense that Hot Chip (3/5) have him as their support act though, because their initial concept was equally unpromising; uncool white boys doing electro-funk. But on new album 'The Warning' they've learnt to transcend this by pursuing their "love of repetition." There are times when it doesn't work, when they rely too heavily on lead vocalist Alexis Taylor's crooning, but they excel when they combine the huge club beats and electro revelry of Daft Punk with simple, memorable melodies and vocal mantras. Highlights are new single The Boy From School, Crap Kraft Dinner from their first record, and of course their breakthrough track Over and Over, all beefed up by the enthusiastic addition of DFA style cowbells and other percussion. Unfortunately though, not enough of tonight's set list quite reaches these peaks. [Milo McLaughlin]
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