Hot Chip: 'We're middle-class white kids'

With a singular sound that nods to R&B, folk-rock and hip-hop, Hot Chip are among the greatest modern pop acts. So why, on the eve of their fifth album, are they still perceived as geeks?'Best to get it out and be done with it," Joe Goddard tweeted to me the other day. "Otherwise there's just a geeky elephant in the room throughout." The geeky elephant is the certainty that in any interview with Hot Chip, the writer – adopting the high-handed tone of some Victorian missionary inquiring as to ...

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