Hot Chip Debut Video For “Spell”
“Spell” showcases some of the more experimental vocal production found on A Bath Full of Ecstasy. The track, originally started life as a track for Katy Perry (Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard contributed to her 2017 album Witness), Hot Chip will head to North America in September before returning to the UK and Europe for their biggest headline tours to date.
Directed by Simon Owens, the video for “Spell” takes the lyrics “Like a spell you are under | And now I feel your curse / It’s all that I wanted / A memory in reverse / Forever I’m haunted” and twists them into a weird and warped bedroom that wouldn’t be out of place in an Evil Dead film.
A Bath Full of Ecstasy is the first time the band have chosen to use outside producers from the offset, working with the late Philippe Zdar (Cat Power, Beastie Boys, Phoenix, Cassius) and Rodaidh McDonald (The XX, Sampha, David Byrne),
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June 28-30th– Glastonbury festival, Somerset
July 4th– Vida Festival, Catalonia Spain
July 5th– Pointu Festival, Six-Fours-les-Plages, France
July 11th– NOS Alive festival, Lisbon, Portugal
July 11-13th– Bilbao Live festival, Bilbao, Spain
July 19-21st– Bluedot Festival, Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield
July 26th – Les Nuits Secrètes festival, Aulnoye-Aimeries, France
August 2-4 – All Together Now festival, Waterford, Ireland
August 4th – Playground of Sound festival, Glasgow
August 16th – La Route du Rock festival, St Malo, France
August 16-18th – Pukkelpop festival, Hasselt, Belgium
August 30th – Into The Great Wide Open Festival, Vlieland, Netherlands
Sept 3rd – Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn NY
Sept 4th – Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn NY
Sept 5th – Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn NY
Sept 7th – 9:30 Club, Washington DC
Sept 8th – Union Transfer, Philadelphia PA
Sept 9th – Royale, Boston MA
Sept 10th – MTELUS, Montreal QC
Sept 12th – Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto ON
Sept 13th – Riviera Theatre, Chicago IL
Sept 14th – First Avenue, Minneapolis MN
Sept 17th – Vogue Theatre, Vancouver BC
Sept 18th – The Showbox, Seattle WA
Sept 19th – The Showbox, Seattle WA
Sept 20th – Roseland Theater, Portland OR
Sept 24th – The Catalyst, Santa Cruz CA
Sept 25th – Fox Theater, Oakland CA
Sept 27th – Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles CA
Oct 16th– Limelight, Belfast
Oct 17th – Olympia, Dublin
Oct 18th – O2 Institute 1, Birmingham
Oct 21st – O2 Academy, Bristol
Oct 22nd – Rock City, Nottingham
Oct 24th – LCR, Norwich
Oct 26th – Alexandra Palace, London
Nov 30th – Alcatraz, Milan
Dec 2nd – Melkweg, Amsterdam
Dec 3rd – Columbiahalle, Berlin
Dec 4th – den Atelier, Luxembourg
Dec 5th – Les Docks, Lausanne
Dec 7th – Elysée Montmartre, Paris – Sold out
Dec 8th – Elysée Montmartre, Paris
Dec 11th – Docks, Hamburg
Dec 14th – Vasateatern, Stockholm
Dec 15th – Rockefeller, Oslo
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