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ELECTRO

Hot Chip: A Bath Full Of Ecstasy (Domino)

Since their breakthrough 2006 single Over And Over, London electro-poppers Hot Chip have made a career from welding pristine pop melodies to house beats, overlaid with Alexis Taylor’s silken, sweet vocals. Sometimes the results are more like elevator music than they would like, but when it works, they have created some of the finest synth-pop tunes of the last 19 years.

This seventh ...