It’s always a good day when London’s Hot Chip announce new music. Back in 2019, the band dropped their incredible album A Bath Full of Ecstasy. Now the group will release their eighth studio LP titled Freakout/Release. The record will land August 19th on Domino Records.

Hot Chip have also shared the title track to the upcoming album. What you get with this offering is a heavy dose of futuristic synth-funk that is initially powered by thumping 4×4 drums and minimal synth lines before exploding into climatic heights in the track’s hook space. Of course there is a total rhythm change towards the end, but what else would you expect from Hot Chip? ‘Freakout/Release’ is indeed experimental but never forgets the dance floor.

Touching on the single

“‘Freakout/Release’ is about pent-up energy and the need for release, and escape. It’s also about making sense of music, and at times being plagued by the thing you focus on – music never leaves my head for a second, which is usually a good feeling, but it can feel claustrophobic at times too. It’s also about finding your place in relation to music and to performing. The riff should feel brutal and dumb and elemental and Joe was thinking about ‘Seven Nation Army’ and the simplicity of that swinging from quiet to loud and back and forth.”