Hot Chip - "Flutes"

Been thinking there's not enough popular music nowadays that draws inspiration from samples of flutes? Me too. And so have Hot Chip. But unlike you and me Hot Chip have actually done something about it. While you and I have been sitting around, moaning and bitching about the lack of music inspired by other music that samples flutes, Hot Chip said "no, we're not going to get all negative about it. We're not going to be part of the problem. That's what's wrong with this world: too many problem-people. Us, we're solutions-people!" And so they put their minds to it, they did something about it, and that something is "Flutes," track #7 from their soon-to-be-released fifth record, In Our Heads (out June 12th via Domino). According to a Pitchfork interview with band member Joe Goddard, "Flutes" drew its inspiration from a two-note flute melody buried somewhere in James Holden's remix of Nathan Fake's "The Sky Was Pink." Okalee dokalee then. But while that's all well-and-good, the main thing to draw from all this is that my inspiring plug about Hot Chip's inspiring approach to dealing with lack was inspired by their own inspiration of the James Holden remix. Simple. Easy Peasy. Don't muddy the waters. Take a simple story and tell it simply by simply telling it. That's, like, the first rule of writing about music. And, yeah, mission accomplished here, thank-you very much.

The other thing to take from all this is that an in-studio video for "Flutes" is below and, well, the track sounds great -- just under eight minutes of what can only be described as classic Hot Chip. Well, I guess that's not the only way to describe it, but for the sake of time, you know? And while the track is great, the video will make you want to vomit. No joke. Lots of spinning -- you'll see. So without futher ado, pop a Gravol or two and enjoy "Flutes."