Made In The Dark - Hot Chip
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Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 40 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 35 Ratings

  • Summary: This is the third album for the English electro-indie rock band.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 40
  2. Negative: 0 out of 40
  1. Dark is one of the first great records of 2008. [Mar 2008, p.146]
  2. 80
    Even as they cherry-pick from seemingly incongruous sources (deep house, hard rock, smooth R&B), there’s a newfound decisiveness, a move toward heavier beats, meatier grooves and warmer sentiments.
  3. 80
    As a listener, it’s equally hard not to feel the love. With Hot Chip, it now feels like the right time to commit.
  4. At times, the sheer busyness of the album’s songs prevents the listener from becoming fully immersed. [Winter 2008, p.82]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. NeilL
    10
    It is interesting to me that one reviewer below calls "Wrestlers" the weakest, most self-conscious song on the album while the very next review proclaims that it is one of the best on the album. Just goes to show that one should mainly ignore critics, or find one who has views close to one's own, and thus articulate one's own reasons for liking or disliking an album or artist. Expand
  2. JasonW
    8
    While this record is not as good as Warning, there is still plenty to be pleased about. Songs like Wrestlers for example, the lyrics could have been written by a 10 year old wrestling fanatic but at the same time it fits and when the piano comes in it changes everything. It's a perfect mesh of beauty and adolescence. Of course there are stand out tracks that hit you right away like ready for the floor, shake a fist, wrestlers, and looking for alot of love but then there are others that grow on you the more you listen like hold on, dont dance, and one pure thought. Made in the Dark is no Warning but then again Hot Chip may never top that. If your are a fan of Hot Chip and there style you will have no problem with this album. Expand
  3. AidanK
    7
    Overall a good record, 'ready for the floor' and 'one pure thought' are the definatley the stand out trackls which is irritating because they are both singles. The more mellow tracks are boring quite frankly and spoil the album. Expand
  4. IbanL
    1
    This album is utterly bad. Some beats and effects are extremely disgusting, and the mellow tracks like the title track are embarrasingly boring. I'm surprised that the critics are so good. Expand

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