Everything Rises Up

Hot Chip “Don’t Deny Your Heart”

Hot Chip excel at conveying a very contented kind of joy, and as they move along through their career, their music seems increasingly bereft of stress or anxiety. “Don’t Deny Your Heart,” my favorite cut from their new album In Our Heads, is a little more potent than their usual work, with its incredibly peppy beat and sparkling keyboard tones evoking a manic spirit that veers away from their default state of up-tempo serenity. The song never gets too far away from its peak moments of distinctly 80s perkiness, but there are some vaguely dark turns that give the composition a sense of shading and dynamic, both musically and emotionally.

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