{"id":2444700,"date":"2019-05-29T07:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T13:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=841203"},"modified":"2019-05-29T07:59:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T13:59:34","slug":"hear-hot-chips-ecstatic-new-song-melody-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-hot-chips-ecstatic-new-song-melody-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Hot Chip\u2019s Ecstatic New Song \u2018Melody of Love\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/hot-chip.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hot-chip\/\">Hot Chip<\/a> released a new song, \u201cMelody of Love,\u201d a jubilant pop track from their forthcoming album <em>A Bath Full of Ecstasy<\/em>, out June 21st. According to a band statement, \u201cMelody of Love\u201d began as a 12-minute instrumental track, built from a music sample by the gospel group The Mighty Clouds of Joy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the eye of producer Rodaidh McDonald, the group turned it into a bombastic explosion of Technicolor pop. The song is about the importance of the transformative, non-verbal moment \u2013 ecstasy as personal happiness, but also of transcendence, of being outside oneself.\u201d The band also stated that&nbsp;<em>A Bath Full of Ecstasy<\/em> will be marked by lead vocalist Alexis Taylor \u201cstepping out of his comfort zone with his lyricism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hot Chip previously released the single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rOnMZALLQPk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHungry Child\u201d<\/a> with an accompanying video. They\u2019ll be touring in support of&nbsp;<em>A Bath Full of Ecstasy<\/em> this summer and fall, kicking off their North American leg on September 3rd in Brooklyn, NY.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hot Chip Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September 3 \u2013 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel<br \/>September 4 \u2013 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel<br \/>September 7 \u2013 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club<br \/>September 8 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer<br \/>September 9 \u2013 Boston, MA @ Royale<br \/>September 10 \u2013 Montreal, QC @ MTELUS<br \/>September 12 \u2013 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre<br \/>September 13 \u2013 Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre<br \/>September 14 \u2013 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue<br \/>September 17 \u2013 Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre<br \/>September 18 \u2013 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox<br \/>September 19 \u2013 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox<br \/>September 20 \u2013 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater<br \/>September 24 \u2013 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst<br \/>September 25 \u2013 Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater<br \/>September 27 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Auditorium<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hot-chip-melody-of-love-841203\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Chip released a new song, \u201cMelody of Love,\u201d a jubilant pop track from their forthcoming album A Bath Full of Ecstasy, out June 21st. According to a band statement, \u201cMelody of Love\u201d began as a 12-minute instrumental track, built from a music sample by the gospel group The Mighty Clouds of Joy. \u201cUnder the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 21:34:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}