Review: Hot Chip – “The Warning”

Boilerplate dance-pop genetically engineered for the ‘tween set.

Occasionally, the U.K. group wanders into engaging territory, serving up bizarrely edible fare in the vein of Zongamin.

More often that not, though, we get treated to paint-by-numbers exercises hungry for the charts.

Favorite Track: “Over and Over”

Grade: D – Jetty, June 2006

About the author

Justin Vellucci is a staff writer for PopMatters, Spectrum Culture, and MusicTAP, a contributor to Pittsburgh Current, and a former staffer for Popdose, Punk Planet and Delusions of Adequacy. His music writing has appeared in national magazines such as American Songwriter, alt-pubs like The Brooklyn Rail, Pittsburgh CityPaper and San Diego CityBeat, blogs Swordfish, Punksburgh and Linoleum, and the Gannett magazine Jetty. He lives in Pittsburgh.