In Our Heads

Thought I would like this more than I did

Not sure why this is on this list. It is not awful. It is just there. Sounds like indie music at points but it isn't fully blown indie music.

Jaunty enough, but the equivalent of listening to an ice cream van drive past your house over and over again.

Bit too hipster for my taste.

I actually liked this more than I thought I would, but that’s not saying a whole lot.

Didn't do much for me to be honest

Some good songs but not really my style. I liked the single "Don't deny your heart" as it is more electro-funky.

Al 2006 sonaven molt frescos i eres un plaer estiuenc de primer ordre. Al 2012, quan 'In Our Heads' va ser publicat, ja havien perdut gran part de la seva màgia. Indietronica solvent, però sense punch diferencial. 'Motion Sickness' continua sent un dels seus millors temes, això sí

Bland, sterile baby food music for soft lads.

Was a fine album, enjoyed ‘let me be him’, furled me through a good a workout. Nothing necessarily wrong with it just fairly uninteresting and didn’t do it for me. 2.5

I never really noticed what a dull year 2012 was for music but this is very strong evidence. Boring as fuck. Fiona Apple's the Idler Wheel was released that year, stick that in. David Byrne and St Vincent Love This Giant, that was a cracker, and she's been completely ignored in this book for whatever reason. At least it wasn't Jake Bugg.

This hasn't aged well and I don't have time for this

I'm not saying there's no room in my heart for electro pop. One of Hot Chip's "Fans also like" in spotify is LCD Soundsystem, who I really enjoy. But this.... not so much.

Seriously irritating.

bleh

I like some of Hot Chip's earlier songs (from The Warning and Made in the Dark), but after two listens of the album, it doesn't really do much for me. The production is quite good, but I don't think the songwriting measures up. The only memorable song to me is Night & Day, which is memorable in the most annoying way! The singer's voice really grates after a while.

Niks an

Ken een ander plaatje van Hot Chip, maar daar waren maar een paar tracks leuk van. Bij deze geldt eigenlijk een beetje hetzelfde.

I didn't want this in my head.

From the band name on down, it's all annoying. But you can (mostly) dance to it. HOT CHIP In Our Heads earns two stars.

Motion sickness - 3 How do you do? - 2 Don't deny your heart - 1 Look at where we are - 2 These chains - 2 Night & day - 3 Flutes - 1 Now there is nothing - 2 Ends of the earth - 1 Let me be him - 1 Always been your love - 1

Corny and outdated sounded like a background music for an club music of the 80s

I hated this way more than I ever expected based on the one or two songs of theirs I knew before.

Thought it was one long song. An album full of nothingness’s

Ritmo electrónico. No es lo mío

Annoyingly white bread generic. There’s absolutely no reason to replicate shitty 80s music 20 years later.

takes me back to moving back to la and working in a lab where we'd listen to kcrw in the morning and id always dread npr news ending and jason bentley playing his set of total dogwater music. i gave this an honest listen because i dont know id he played anything off this album in particular, so there was nothing traumatizing in this for me. but it all sounded like this. he also played the same vampire weekend song like every day that summer. but i dont think we'll look back on this time and remember this band, feels like a premature call on the list writer's part

Never listened. Expectations: None - Verdict: Dislike - Motion Sickness is ok. How Do You Do? has a good opening groove but I really don't like it once it gets going. I'm only a few tracks in and I really don't think this album is doing anything for me. Each song starts with an element that I don't mind and then manages to twist it into something I don't like. An album with some potential but not enjoyable for me.

Abysmal nothingness. Is this really the best of the 2010s?

Really bad.

not my vibe, kind of annoying 1/5

the first verse of track 2 is the worst moment yet on this sometimes rotten website. can't stop listening to it.

Middling synthpop that no one has to listen to before they die. It's not even on 'overrated' levels of recognizability (a la MGMT's Oracular Spectacular, Kings of Leon's Only by the Night, any Daft Punk/Taylor Swift album, etc). Since this is seemingly *English* pop, I hope my perspective is overly American, and perhaps this is to someone across the pond as Only by the Night was to me - rash-inducing horror. Only then, do I suppose, it merits being on this list.

Sjukt å få to 1'ere på rad...

Clearly this album is triggering some nausea-inducing reflex that goes beyond rational response for me so I'll just note that all I hear is the worst of programmed synth boppy schlock like someone hit the funk preset on a 70's Yamaha home piano and a group of generic church choir members dropped over to add some soulless soul to these insipid lyrics, and just as I'm thinking is this a Christian rock band? the lyric on cue drops "A church is not for praying it's for celebrating the life that bleeds through the pain" and I take a second look at the album cover - stained glass, right?? And all I can hear is vague happy church band make-me-live-again messages in the rest of it, which I realize is totally inaccurate rationally, but too much chocolate over the Easter weekend maybe, and hey, even if it was Christian music what's wrong with that other than in this case all of the above? I'll give it a second listening in a year or two - if time's healed my ears and I'm hearing a 5 I'll make the edit. Barf.

Not a fan

Toed the line of awful

"Hey lets start an 80's band but try really hard to miss the 80s vibe" this band, prolly

Didn't think much of it. A bit electro, but not in a cool way. More of a plinky-plonky way.

Irgendwie ist hier die the Police review doppelt eingepackt worden. Daher hab Edith für mich kurz angemacht. Kann mich aber nicht mehr an die ursprüngliche review erinnern und auch an keine Textzeile. Sagt aber eigentlich alles über das Album. Völlig an mir vorbeigezogen und nix hängen geblieben. Notabable Textzeile

Die 80s waren doch 80s genug - warum kalte Suppe nochmal aufwärmen? Die Synthesizer, die! Erinnert mich alles an "Pop Goes My Heart" aus dem Film mit Hugh Grant (this is not a compliment).

The kind of album you hear at the Millennial Burger Joint (TM). It's glorified elevator music at best which isn't a bad thing. Making small talk on your way up to the 6th floor needs a backing track and what better artist to do that than Hot Chip. Milk and crumpets with any seasoning kept far far away. I genuinely got so bored listening to this album that I had to take a break multiple times in order to actually digest this coconut water puddle of an album. Genuinely one of the most uninteresting albums I've ever listened to. 1/10

There was a lot of great music being made in 2010. No idea why this pablum is on the list.

My spice tolerance is pretty good so how hot could this chip be?

I think at this point (700 albums in and probably a couple dozen British electronic albums), all Brit pop/electronic will get one star. I’ll try them, at least briefly, but honestly, I have yet to find one even bearable. This one is no different. No worse, but no better, either.

Ehh not a fan at all. Just boring and uninspiring

No

Motion Sickness Night and Day Flutes

Herranjestas olipa lapanen levy. vähän niinku tylsä pet shop boys. 1/5

Like a cross between landfill indie and yacht rock whatever this is deserves an even more derogatory genre name. It’s this sort of stuff that made watching Grey’s Anatomy so hard to watch. I keep getting visions of Ellen Pompeo emoting in a rainstorm while this bloke witters on (That’s the genre name - it’s ABC Soundsystem) Night and Day is a bit of a banger, though. (Lest you think I only wanna dance my favorite Hot Chip song is Made in the Dark.) If it wasn’t for the grating effect of his voice it would be too featherweight to make any impact at all. The only reason to hear this before I die is as a warning that this might be playing in purgatory and I need to up my karma points sharp-ish in order to skip the waiting room.

Abysmal album. Represents everything that is wrong with modern music. I don't know who convinced some vocalists that if then sound bored to death, it will convey a kind of sadness in their singing - it doesn't. I personally blame Joy Division here. This album combines pop music with electronic, and somehow takes the worst parts of both of them. It's like if Daft Punk had an inverted child. Melodies never resolve and go anywhere, samples and beats are so repetitive and uninspired. Vocals would better non-existent. "Don't deny your heart" had some flashes of decency, but sadly it's the only one. It's and album that is only listenable when on drugs or highly intoxicated otherwise. And even then it's not a good listen. You can safely skip this one.

It was both boring and too irritating to listen to. Impressive.

I like the album design more than the music, which is sort of ok... ish. The pattern repeats itself, both the cover and music.

Not my cup of tea

below average on heart/substance in a peak moment of genre recycling that was incredibly low on heart/substance. music: hated. (⌐■_■)

Driving this one down to the Millennial Culture Dump at the edge of town. They make me pay extra to drop it off

I assume Hot Chip is cockney for an explosive bowel movement, because this a real turd.

Not for me

Sounds just like the electronic music I hated in the 80s.

Instantly forgettable.

I was genuinely excited to see this band come up and was well up for something poppy and and fun. What a disappointment.

Dull as dishwater, tepid and annoying. Hot Chip is not for me. Back to Blood Orange - Essex Honey. That suits me much better at the moment.

This is too bad.

Why is this here?

No melodies, no hooks, no feeling, flat lyrics, robotic rhythms... I'm curious to read the positive reviews to hear what people like about this.

Negative

This is just terrible. Hey we should love each other set to a bunch of beeps and boops. How about no. Seriously the entire album beeps and boops. I swear it's a casio preset!

Dreadful tuneless casio keyboard waffle. All that washed over me as i listened was a palpable rage. If this is the future of music we need to start reintroducing some form of musical gulags. Not a single second of this is worthwhile. Music for those who wear scarves indoors.

Pithy lyrics, overly produced crap couldn't make it through. Awful.

1. motion - 1 2. do - 1 3. heart - 1 4. uuhere - 1.5 5. chainz - 1 6. night - 1 7. flutez - 1.5 8. nothing - 1 9. earth - 1 10. him - 1 11. love - 1.5

Don't get the appeal at all, just felt repetitive don't like the vocals on any of the songs

Pants

Nope

I listened to it. I felt nothing positive or negative. I listened 3 times to the whole album and each time it was like listening to it for the first time and each time I was unmoved. If I ever listen to the album again it will be like listening to it for the first time ever. Honestly have no idea how it’s considered a top 1000 albums If you lined every album ever created in order of interesting-ness, this would be right in the fucking middle.

Dit is van 2012??? klinkt als hetgeen men zelfs niet op een jaren 80 plaat wou zetten...

Bad

Utter dross. It sounds like a couple of guys found GarageBand for the first time.

Listening to computers make music leaves me feeling less human. These vocals make me embarrassed to be human. 250 years ago they had Mozart. We have Hot Chip.

Not for me.

If you order New Order on wish.

Слишком попсово. А то что, электронщина, ещё и ужасно

There was nothing here for me. It felt so soulless, devoid of any feeling. It wasn't even fun pop. It was just synthy, drum-machiney emptiness.

Glossy but empty millennial synth pop, bright and breezy upbeat stuff that draws heavily on 80s New Wave and disco styles, sounds and rhythms. Sounds mostly like corny sitcom theme song music in the end. Gets very bad when the dancey synths dial back and they turn into sincere guitar crooners like indie Ed Sheeran (look at where we are) or into an ersatz neosoul space jazz Odyssey (now there is nothing) - awful. A byproduct of accelerating cycles of nostalgia, at its best this is fun dance music that's a great artifact of the late peak hipster moment, because of how affected, winkingly unoriginal and ultimately disposable it is.

Horrible

dopey so-2010s-it-hurts lion king electronic junk. 2 stars but minus 1 for having the gall to talk shit on Zappa when they're making MGMT music for guys who spend all their time at concerts trying to talk to girls aged 18 and lower

Bland and devoid of emotion from start to finish, presented with a smug tongue-in-cheek delivery which irritates on every level - like a load of old woodwork teachers with 808s and Korgs trying to prove they can get down with the kids, but (wait for it) maybe they are also mocking the kids a bit too. How very clever. I cannot imagine why this album would ever warrant being on this list, yet here it is...

Very shit. Pedestrian rhythms. Dull songwriting. Unimaginative overall.

point2.

Weird and boring at the same time, bad combo

Not only is this bad but it’s uninteresting the whole time. 1.36

hate this shit

Μαλακια

Boring and bland. Singer was awful. No edge or interesting musical experiments. 80s backwash isn't a vibe. People back then hated New Wave! Why do we need more of it three decades removed? This should not be on the list.

Sounds great in the club. Well....this isn't even that great for a club. Sounds like shite on my home speaker.

If Babyshambles are landfill indie then I guess this is post-landfill indie. One is the sound of iPod commercials and one is the sound of having a UX design job at Apple eight years later. Like the landfill has been paved over and there's a Starbucks with a mural painted on the side of it now and this is what's playing in it. Really bad and just really resigned and flaccid sounding, it's millennial muzak.

Didn't really like this at all.

Hot Chip? More like Hot Garbage. 11 forgettable songs.

I could not be fucked to listen to the entirety of most of the tracks on this album. If any of them suddenly became magnificent in the last 30 seconds to a minute I wouldn’t know because I very quickly became tired of each of these tracks and skipped just to get this shit over with. I don’t know if I’ve ever been so bored by electronic music. Uninteresting wanker music with an annoying tool whining over the top. I was baffled as to how these nerds were so acclaimed when there are so many more notable electronic acts out there that could take this spot before I saw those dread words: Per Spotify: “Hot Chip’s position as one of BRITAINS most beloved electronic bands is now firmly and magnificently set in stone” RETARDED MANGLEMOUTH AUSTERITY CHILD COAL DUST BREATHING IMPERIALISTS PLAGUING US WITH THEIR NEXT WAVE OF GLOBAL TERROR: MUSIC CRITICS. The worst part is there is so much good electronic and EDM more specifically to come out of the British scene that is totally snubbed critically because it’s made for 19 year old Londoners to overheat and die taking ecstasy in a warehouse.

(Scratching his head) Yeah - it’s electro-poppy. Is it memorable? Nah. I did not find it offensive. That said, I won’t listen again.

I can’t.

What in the flat earther!? Some danceable tracks, and I probably did in 2012 without knowing. This needs more body. Doesn't leave a lasting impression. I didn't like this.

Garbage vapid electro-indie pop. Who buys this shit?

Garbage.

I really, really try to give all of these albums a chance and sometimes that leads me to forcing myself to listen to music that is just not enjoyable (to me), but I still power through and give each song a chance, in full, on the album to give me something. I was not able to do that with this album. There were several songs where I skipped to the next one after a minute or two, which is the first time I can remember in a long time where I did that. Musically, it's not bad - there's some decent beats and riffs and layers and whatnot, but once the singer starts singing, the whole song falls apart - it's like a knee jerk reaction to find the "next" button. I usually wait to read other reviews until I've finished an album so I don't taint my own view, but admit that I jumped the gun a bit on this one and took a peek - very surprised to see this have so many 5 star ratings and an average over 3. Just goes to show how diverse all of our musical tastes are....thank God this one is over, though.

Don't like this guys voice

meh.

Did not care for it.

sounds like disco to me

Not my style

pass

I listened to half of this. The song I got to, “flutes” seemed to have a good groove, but overall it was bland - musical wallpaper or background noise. I was surprised, again, that 1001 albums is suggesting an album by an artist but without that artists most popular song/s on it. Is this supposed to be the hipster“deep cut” that’s better than the obvious choice? Because it just seemed boring.

Thoughts before listening: Another album that feels like the editors were grasping at strings to get modern bands on their list. I remember these guys making end of year best album lists, but they have not proven to stand the test of time like the albums on this list from the 50s - 90s. There certainly are some albums from the 00s and 10s that have become modern classics, but this isn't one of them. I am expecting this to be British electronic inspired indie rock with some catchy songs, but ultimately not something that I would consider one of the 1,001 albums you have to hear. Review: This sounds like the 80s music I don't like. Its extremely poppy without any edge to the music at all. Pretty boring and I am finding myself skipping most songs. Even the 2 songs with 10 million + listens on Spotify are just saccharine poppy disco sounding indie rock. I thought these guys were more of a dance punk type band i.e. LCD Soundsystem, but they are not. This just isn't for me.

There is a non-zero amount of broken glass I would rather eat than ever listen to this album again. They’ve effectively combined the worst aspect of 80s synth driven music, disco, and middling vocals to make something less interesting than an old school elevator selection.

Mind numbingly boooooooooorrrriiinnnggg. Or in short... its ceap! These guys churned out some half decent stuff in previous singles, but not in this album. Such a load of nothingness that should never have been created let alone submitted to a list of albums you need to hear.

booo, hated it

NO! Fuck off!

Boooo! Shite.

Ugh.

Wasn't feeling it, didn't finish. Just was not feeling it. I guess I like my chips cold? Unless they're warm tortillas or California Highway Patrol officers, specifically on motorcycles, specifically in the 1970s.

Fuck right off with this.

eletronica

I really liked the first song, it was great, then after that it sounded like I was in a club, not great. I has to skip "Now there is nothing" as the sound effects bothered me

I reckon I've hit the barrier trying to think of nice things to say about sub-par music masquerading as anything other than a pastiche of some other, better bands. Why innovate when you can copy and hope the listener is too young to remember the 90s. This doesn't deserve to be here.