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Hot Chip are getting the difficult first day back after the Bank Holiday off to a fantastic start: they've just announced their eighth studio album Freakout/Release, ready to drop in August on Domino. 

A blending of styles—primary among them old school disco—lead single 'Down' is too complex a piece to be pure joy, but its buzzy synths and disco ball backing vocals are a shot of energy.

'Down' is Freakout/Release's opening track and is underpinned by a looped sample from 'More Than Enough' by Universal Togetherness Band.

Written during the pandemic, the album is filled with—as the band put it—"a darkness that runs through a lot of those tracks.”

Freakout/Release Tracklist:

Album tracklisting:
1. Down
2. Eleanor
3. Freakout/Release
4. Broken
5. Not Alone
6. Hard To Be Funky feat. Lou Hayter
7. Time
8.  Miss The Blues
9.  The Evil That Men Do feat. Cadence Weapon
10. Guilty
11. Out Of My Depth

Freakout/Release arrives 19 August via Domino Recordings.

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