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Live Review: WATCH: Hot Chip 'Look At Where We Are' (Official Video)

20 July 2012 | 1:30 pm | Staff Writer

You may be a little thrown at first viewing of Hot Chip's 'Look At Where We Are' but I can assure that you'll build a powerful understanding

Pissed off models, cut-up toy serpents, operating tables and strawberries. You may be a little thrown at first viewing of HOT CHIP's 'Look At Where We Are' clip but I can assure that you'll build an understanding if you give it a chance (or if you're lazy, just read on).

Quite an obscure tale, we are presented with a twisted love story symbolising the good and the bad attributes to a relationship. We have a dominate figure who aims to save his love artificially by adapting to the role of Frankenstein as he operates on his partner. After being cut open, we travel through the girl's head as if it were a vortex to find bad memories of the pair, hence why re-imaging becomes essential. Although very abstract, the clip manages to relate to your own personal relationship troubles and experiences.

Directed by experimental video artist Danny Perez (Animal Collective), the video was a collaboration between HOT CHIP, The Creator's Project and Domino Records. To consider the melancholic beats and the haunting lyrics, “Never gonna be without each other's love again,” you have a very complex work of art.

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'Look At Where We Are' is an emotional track from the British electronic band's latest dynamic dance record In Our Heads and is quite possibly their best feature yet.

Recently announced on the Falls lineup, catch HOT CHIP at Lorne or Marion Bay at the end of the year.

Words by Hannah Galvin