Hot Chip - The Warning (Black Vinyl)

Rewind to the year 2006, when British music was mostly guitar bands in winklepickers and waistcoats. And then along came Hot Chip’s album ‘The Warning’ like a kaleidoscopic bolt from the blue and turned a generation of indie fans onto the hedonistic pleasure of repetitive beats. ‘The Warning’ was ahead of the zeitgeist, spending 17 weeks in the UK charts and earning a Mercury Prize nomination thanks to tracks like ‘Over & Over’ and ‘Boy From School’ Inspired by the sounds coming out of New York in the mid-2000s but even more indebted to the London club underground, the album was characterised by ambitious genre blends and a statement of intent. “Making this record was definitely us trying to defy expectations and do something exciting.”