Hot Chip "Joy In Repetition"

More than two decades and eight studio albums in, Hot Chip remain as vital as ever: playful, profound and perpetually locked in the groove. They announce their first Best Of album, Joy In Repetition will be released on September 5 via Domino. Mapping out an artistic evolution from DIY beginnings into “the greatest British pop group of their generation” (The Guardian) with six Top 20 albums, a Mercury Music Prize nomination, sell-out residencies at London’s Brixton Academy and list of collaborators that includes David Byrne, Jarvis Cocker, Robert Wyatt and Brian Eno.

Joy In Repetition is a collection shaped by dancefloors, bedroom studios, festival stages and friendship. The record’s title – alluding to both the lyrics of their career-defining track and one of Alexis Taylor’s favorite Prince songs – captures something elemental about the band: a fascination with rhythm, but also the exuberant act of making those things, together, over and over and over and over and over. In another nod to “Over and Over,” the album’s artwork by the legendary Sir Peter Blake features a painted monkey with a miniature cymbal.