5 days of daily EPs

Remember EPs? The 'more important than a single but not quite ready to be an album' releases of yesteryear?

We're going to try that this week with 3-5 songs a day to soundtrack your daily doings.

DOWNLOAD: Track 1: Hot Chip - Colours (DFA remix)

This one's a 'molten ballad' according to Pitchforkmedia.com. They're talking about the original mix. DFA usually likes to add more cowbell to their remixes, but in this case rip out the vocals for a coda of synth that sound like the best rave you've ever had in your local cathedral. (This is a compliment.)

A certain transcendence via squawks and bleeps. A summer favorite. Hot Chip: The Warning: Pitchfork Record Review: "Hot Chip
The Warning
[DFA/EMI; 2006]
Rating: 8.1
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It's only natural that Hot Chip would push themselves a bit after their debut Coming on Strong, a successful but safe entr�e to the British electro-soul outfit. Their kitschy yet deeply affecting lyrics drew so much attention the first time around that I'd met more than a few people who said they hated the group simply because they seemed like cheeky fuckers. They missed the point, but that's another matter. Follow-up album The Warning is propulsion and power and punctuation rolled up into one, abandoning a lot of the graceful, delicate melodies of the debut for songs with more wallop. It was a necessary move-- a step forward-- and the results are mostly golden.

Of course, a lot of their pert turns of phrases are still around, as are the molten ballads ('Look After Me', 'Colours') but they're usually eclipsed by the zooming, gliding synths, keyboards, and drum machines that push things forward. If their flavor was DF-Ay! before, it now sounds a bit more DF-Hey. Nowhere is that more evident than on the unsteady, maniacally fun 'Over and Over', the early single that got most excited for their turn to the dancefloor. Built on the best kind of chant (one you can remember), a skulking guitar, and handclaps, the song is a standout among spastic jams like the churning Human League-esque 'No Fit State' or crystalline '(Just Like We) Breakdown'."

Discovered through... NME.com loves them. Pitchfork digs them. Can't pinpoint where in the blogosphere we found this though...