With their eighth studio album Freakout/Release due to arrive on 19th August, Hot Chip are giving us the latest taste of what to expect with new track ‘Eleanor’.

“It’s about the world smashing into you, waves crashing into you, all-encompassing pain, and how you have to walk through it,” Alexis Taylor explains. “The verses are about separation when families are divided against their will. It’s about strong friends. It’s also about Samuel Beckett giving Andre The Giant lifts to school, and about how Beckett must have learned a lot from Andre’s wisdom.”

“These songs feel like accomplished pop songs, but it was just us making music in a room,” Al Doyle adds of the album. “Those moments are a testament to how we’ve developed as songwriters and musicians ourselves.”

The English synthpop band formed in London in 2000, featuring multi-instrumentalists Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard, Al Doyle, Owen Clarke, and Felix Martin. They are occasionally joined by former member Rob Smoughton for live performances and studio recordings.

Listen to ‘Eleanor’ below.

Freakout/Release Tracklisting:

1. Down
2. Eleanor
3. Freakout/Release
4. Broken
5. Not Alone
6. Hard To Be Funky feat. Lou Hayter
7. Time
8. Miss The Bliss
9. The Evil That Men Do feat. Cadence Weapon
10. Guilty
11. Out Of My Depth