Pitchfork

Hot Chip diehards have likely been anticipating new song "Shake a Fist" since before the UK electrop outfit released their computer-loving grower, The Warning, a little more than a year ago. Live YouTube footage of the song trickled out first, followed by a Diplo remix. Alert friends may have now noticed a version of "Shake a Fist" on Hot Chip's MySpace page. The song will probably feature on a new album due next year, according to a publicist, but this isn't the final mix.

In its current form, anyway, "Shake a Fist" takes the band's electro-soul in a moodier, sweatier direction-- like Justin Timberlake the moment Timbaland informs him his party has run out of coke. The track relies less on melody than another newer cut, "My Piano", more on rhythmic clatter and squiggly synth textures. "If you have a pair of headphones, you'd better get 'em out and get 'em cranked up," a voice observes during a mid-song breakdown. Better do it, or we hear Hot Chip will break your legs and snap off your head.

Stream: > Hot Chip: "Shake a Fist"
[possibly from Shot Down in Flames; due 2008 on DFA/EMI]