Along with Alexis Taylor's recent solo effort, Hot Chip is keeping its fans hunger for dancefloor worthy electro-pop appeased with a collaborative EP with the Soft Machine's Robert Wyatt. The four-track collection, entitiled Hot Chip with Robert Wyatt and Geese, hits retailers just in time for Christmas on December 23. From the Hot Chip website:
"Long recognised as one of the pioneers of avant-jazz rock, from his beginnings as a member of Soft Machine and through his collaborations with Scrit
It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again.
BILLY JOEL
The Stranger
(Columbia/Legacy)
As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" and "Anthony's Song (Movin' Out)" remain priceless snapshots of Annie Hall-era NYC, the title track bares real teeth, and the Kenny Chesney fave "Only the Good Die Young" -
Afrobeat rhythms, vocals and guitars collide with Euro-club dance hooks on the latest single from Jack Peñate, a British singer with an infectiously soulful, hoarse, Cockney-schoolboy voice. I've been unable to get this song out of my head since I got it on a sampler from Peñate's label XL Recordings. (The disc also features a fantastic cover of Vampire Weekend's "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" by Peter Gabriel and Hot Chip -- Google it). Apparently, Señor Peñate has been big in the UK for a while,
