Hot Chip will release their sixth album and second for Domino, Why Make Sense?, on May 19th. Recorded in Oxfordshire and London and produced by Hot Chip with Mark Ralph, Why Make Sense? is the band’s follow up to 2012’s critically acclaimed In Our Heads.
Watch the below video for the Why Make Sense? album opener, “Huarache Lights”, based around a light installation by artist Robert Bell and filmed in one take by Andy Knowles.
Why Make Sense? tracklisting is as follows:
1. Huarache Lights
2. Love Is The Future
3. Cry For You
4. Started Right
5. White Wine and Fried Chicken
6. Dark Night
7. Easy To Get
8. Need You Now
9. So Much Further To Go
10. Why Make Sense?
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Separate EP:
1. Burning up
2. Separate
3. Move With Me
4. Re-harmonize
Hot Chip will be touring the US, UK & Europe in support of Why Make Sense? this May and June including shows in Portland, Denver, Minneapolis, Boston, Los Angeles and more. Tickets for select US shows go on sale on February 13th and all UK shows on February 14th. The band are also performing at Sasquatch Festival in May and at Governors Ball in New York City in June. More live dates to be announced soon.
Full worldwide live dates with ticket links are as follows:
Feb 12 Gateshead, UK: BBC Radio 6 Music Festival (Sold Out)
May 12 Glasgow, UK @ Glasgow School of Art
May 13 Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
May 14 London, UK @ Oval Space
May 17 Brussels, Belgium @ Les Nuits Botanique
May 19 Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Tolhuistuin
May 20 Berlin, Germany @ Heimathafen
May 21 Paris, France @ La Gaite Lyrique
May 25 George, WA @ Sasquatch Festival
May 26 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
May 28 Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
May 30 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
May 31 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
June 2 Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
June 3 Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
June 4 Boston, MA @ House of Blues – Boston
June 5 Washington, DC @ Echostage
June 5 – 7 New York, NY @ The Governors Ball Music Festival
June 18 Barcelona, Spain @ Sonar By Day Festival
June 19 Barcelona, Spain @ Sonar By Night Festival
August 11 Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre (with !!!)
Aug 21 Crickhowell, UK @ Green Man Festival
