ARTISTIC Licence: Apple brings radio back
There’s a lyric on the new Hot Chip record that stands out because it sounds so mournful and true. Against the clattery effects and phaser-gun synths of Huarache Lights, frontman Alexis Taylor intones, “Replace us with the things that do the job bett
For the past few decades, we’ve all known that’s the truth, and perhaps nowhere more so than in the very places which might play the Hot Chip tune in question: radio stations.
As listeners tune out of radio and into Spotify, YouTube, Tidal and free online stations, radio station bosses have increasingly occupied a defensive position, hiring fewer music presenters and making more use of algorithms which can mechanically ...
