Description
Label Review.
2019 album. Also available on CD.
Our Overview.
British group Hot Chip release their seventh studio album, ‘A Bath Full Of Ecstasy’. their third album for Domino. This new record crystallising the sound they’ve become celebrated for - bridging euphoria and melancholy with colourful melodies, idiosyncratic vocalisations and pounding electronic pop rhythms.
Recorded in Paris and London, the album sees the group (Owen Clarke, Al Doyle Joe Goddard, Felix Martin and Alexis Taylor) open up to a more adventurous and collaborative songwriting process, choosing to work with outside producers for the first time: Philippe Zdar - the French maestro who’s shaped the magic of Cassius and Phoenix - and Rodaidh McDonald, the Scot who’s collaborated with The xx, David Byrne and Sampha, among others.
‘A Bath Full of Ecstasy’ is a fresh, invigorating and essential new chapter in the band’s career. Alongside the external producers, the album also finds Taylor stepping out of his comfort zone with his lyricism; though rooted in first person, here his storytelling becomes more bodily, and more open to new ideas. The record is a celebration of joy but recognises the struggle it can take to get to that point of happiness. You can hear the pleasure Hot Chip had in creating this album and they want to pass on that feeling to the listener. It is time to get lost in ‘A Bath Full of Ecstasy’.