Part of the Made in the Dark
Written by Daniel Nicolas. Posted on August 5th 2008
Have you ever just woken up on the wrong side of the bed and then had your morning change completely? This particular morning I had to take my brother to the train station and I wasn’t all that happy about waking up early. Now as I am not a morning person, waking up early is a rather laborious task nearly equivalent to the Twelve Herculean Tasks, but with less horses and hydras and more grumbling and griping.
This particular morning I had been woken up, moaning about how bright the sun was and how I might melt disappear in the fog on the way home. On the way out the door I spotted a CD from the night before and instantly a song stuck in my head, and I just sorta jammed along in my head and danced as my morning began to turn around. I grabbed the new Hot Chip album and shuffled to the car.
My brother yawned and asked what CD I grabbed. I just turned it louder, selected track 11 of Made in the Dark, and grinned. The road screamed as the car flew down the highway to catch the train, and hypnotized by the strangely fresh music he lost it. I laughed as my brother moved his arms and tapped his feet, bobbing his head and singing along as if he’d heard it a million times. After arriving at the train station exactly on time, my brother rushed to buy his ticket and I sat in the car laughing.
Hot Chip’s Made in the Dark is one of my recent favorite albums and it’s held up against time. After constantly listening it as it leaked, then buying and still listening for weeks after the official release, I took a break and gave it some time to age and realized that I would come back to it eventually and just totally dance and grin like that day. In late July, I put that notion to test and brought the album to work. It turned out to be nearly the best day of work ever (almost as good as the day I brought Daft Punk’s Discovery).
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