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Jun 11, 2012In Our Heads is some of their finest and most accessible music.
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Alternative PressJun 7, 2012The band's fifth studio album mostly keeps the BPMs brisk and retro-minded programming colorful. [Jul 2012, p.94]
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Jun 7, 2012In Our Heads is a record for all occasions, an album that balances sentiment and soul with an ever-evolving talent for constructing infectious pop hooks.
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Jul 18, 2012In Our Heads is, at the end of the day, a signal that Hot Chip's masterpiece is still forthcoming.
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Jun 13, 2012Fifth album In Our Heads features its share of cerebral hip-shakers but the group has enough other moves to keep things varied.
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Jun 11, 2012["Night and Day" and "Flutes"] are glimmers of liveliness on an otherwise decedent record.
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Jun 13, 2012Hot Chip has written an album that touches the many feelings on the spectrum of love, while staying true to the humorous and entertaining musical idiosyncrasies that the band has enlisted for the better part of a decade.
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Jul 6, 2012Taylor and Goddard's pop impulses and the dance music they've always been exploring have finally cohered, yielding a collection of songs with the potential to be as efficient on a dance floor as it is in a bedroom.
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Jun 11, 2012Most of the London electronic outfit's fifth album, In Our Heads, fills the perfect middle dance floor between their disparate influences.
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Jul 16, 2012This is music to celebrate life with and to joyously fashion because it's certainly amazing.
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Jun 11, 2012[In Our Heads] is another joyous triumph.
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Jun 11, 2012The over riding result is that Hot Chip now seem infinitely more comfortable and competent in their skins.
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Jun 14, 2012It's a welcome venture, for sure, and just like all those previous Hot Chip records, In Our Heads won't go unmoved to.
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Jun 11, 2012In Our Heads seems acutely lacking in personality, meaning or the ability to evoke, in your head, anything other than a vague urge to dance.
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Jun 12, 2012Bringing it to a simmer works well for the group.
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MagnetJul 20, 2012In Our Heads sees them take their craft to its most dizzying heights yet. [No.89, p.54]
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Jun 22, 2012Prepare to get emotional and elevated in equal measures.
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MojoJun 25, 2012An album that's a steady pleasure from start to finish. [Jul 2012, p.82]
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Jun 8, 2012It is the best album start-to-finish from Hot Chip, one that continues to show their deft range--from infectious disco hits to soulful ballads.
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Jun 14, 2012Tasteful and perfectly executed, but workmanlike.
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Jun 14, 2012Being authentically emotional also serves to reframe their earlier material, revealing that there've always been some truly moving sentiments hidden under the sonic reference points and clever wordplay.
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Jun 12, 2012Like any good evening out, the fun level varies, and at times it gets a little too blurry for good measure.
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Jun 12, 2012The songwriting is as strong and intricate than on 2006's classic The Warning, even if it takes a few listens for the finer points to sink in.
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Jun 11, 2012In Our Heads could be the best thing we've heard from them.
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Jun 8, 2012In Our Heads boasts at least eight festival crowd decimators, and finally strikes the right balance between Hot Chip's two sides.
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Q MagazineOct 12, 2012Five albums along and Hot Chip continue to outdo themselves, not to mention most of their peers. [Jul 2012, p.111]
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Jun 21, 2012Naturally, the good tracks are sublime... [yet] familiar overreaching, archness even, creeps in elsewhere.
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Jun 12, 2012There's unguarded joy in the British quintet's mix of synthed-up grooves and pop songfulness.
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Jun 13, 2012Hot Chip is built primarily on good beats and a sweet, devil-may-care sass, neither of which the groups seems interested in delivering on In Our Heads.
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Jun 28, 2012The main problem with In Our Heads is its musical anonymity.
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Jun 12, 2012Though the group has always let a bit of earnestness slip into its music, In Our Heads is a full culmination of what's truest to the group's warm electronic heart.
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Jun 8, 2012They've left easy indie-disco hits behind and are now proving they're some of the most capable songwriters around.
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Jun 7, 2012Listening to In Our Heads, you do wonder why a band who make music this good and this unique aren't huge stars.
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Jun 8, 2012This is such an improvement on 2010's enervated One Life Stand that one can only conclude their various sabbatical projects have rejuvenated their creative juices.
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Jun 12, 2012IOH is their most emotional release yet and also their most philosophical.
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Jun 11, 2012Flutes is a terrifically chilly robotic workout, These Chains blends doe-eyed R&B and disco to fine effect. Night And Day's so-so electrofunk is the only casualty to this record's sense of adventure.
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Jun 12, 2012Three good tracks [songs, "Motion Sickness," "Ends of the Earth," and "Flutes,"] do not an album make - and, unfortunately, this is the sum of the worthwhile moments on In Our Heads. Elsewhere the album is pure drudgery, remarkable only in its dullness.
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Jun 19, 2012It's hard to paint this as anything other than what it is: a professional-sounding album of radio-friendly pop. It's as bad as that sounds.
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UncutJun 8, 2012With this one weighted heavily toward the dance floor, there's no shortage of sublime moments. [Jul 2012, p.74]
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Under The RadarJul 9, 2012You've got the soundtrack to a fun night out...but little more. [Jun 2012, p.147]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 55 out of 59
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Mixed: 3 out of 59
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Negative: 1 out of 59
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Jul 1, 2012Hot Chip
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Jun 18, 2012Electro-brit poppers Hot Chip have produced a expertly crafted fifth album. If the group wasn