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Pop

The open-hearted loveliness of Hot Chip

9 November 2019

9:00 AM

9 November 2019

9:00 AM

Squeeze and Hot Chip are both great British pop groups. But they never defined a scene. Their ambitions extended further than being hailed by a few hundred people in bleeding-edge clubs.

Squeeze piggybacked on punk, but they were quite evidently never a punk group, even if they dressed up as one.

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