Hop Chip Release Video for "Broken" and Announce North American Tour

Photos by Pooneh Ghana

Back in August, Hot Chip released their acclaimed sixth album Freakout/Release, followed by four night residency at London’s Brixton Academy, playing to nearly 20,000 fans. Today, Hot Chip release the music video for their song “Broken” and bring big news to their North American fans with Spring tour dates.

“Sometimes you see friends who are really struggling with things in their lives,” Alexis Taylor explains, “and you feel empathy for what they’re going through. We can all relate to the feeling of being broken down by things.”

The video, directed by Maxim Kelly, is a take on the classic boy band video but one made by malfunctioning A.I. Kelly says: “I’m intrigued by A.I. machines doing artwork. In the future, robots and computers might make music videos too, this is what I imagine the first will look like. I referenced the boyband videos I grew up watching on MTV, overly sentimental with emotional and gut-wrenching performances. In this video, soulless androids run through all the motions and cliches of these videos with deadpan robotic precision. It’s a pop video with all the entertaining and watchable bits taken out.”

On top of the release of the music video for “Broken,” the band also released three different remixes by Jacques Lu Cont, aka producer Stuart Price (Dua Lipa, Madonna, Pet Shop Boys, Rina Sawayama), Planningtorock’s “Planningtohope” and DeeWee artist Each Other, aka Justin Strauss & Max Pask.

Watch & listen to “Broken” below.

Check out Hot Chip’s North American tour dates below.

FREAKOUT/RELEASE TOUR DATES

Groovy TunesFebruary 1, 2023