Hot Chip: The Warning (2LP, 20th anniversary edition) [DOMINO RECORD CO.]

Why you'll love it

This 20th anniversary edition spreads The Warning across a 2LP set in a gatefold jacket with the classic artwork, new liner notes and a download card. The album was shortlisted for the 2006 Mercury Prize, and "Over and Over" became the band's calling card.

This edition

• 2LP set
• 20th anniversary edition
• Gatefold jacket
• New liner notes
• Download card included

About the album

Hot Chip made The Warning at home in Putney, and NME reckoned the normality of the surroundings suited them. Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard produced it as a duo, turning the quirky electro-pop of their debut into something sharper, darker and far more dancefloor-ready.

"Over and Over" is the big one, a nagging, joyous groove that charted twice in the UK, "And I Was a Boy from School" is tender and bittersweet, and "(Just Like We) Breakdown" got the DFA treatment from James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy. The title track sets soft glockenspiel against menacing words, and "No Fit State" and "Colours" show off their gift for melancholy melody.

Pitchfork singled out the title track as a centrepiece, and critics heard the band taking a step away from Prince and a step toward LCD Soundsystem. Not bad for a record made at home.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Domino (cat# REWIGLP201), a reissue of the 2006 album.