Electronic wunderkids Hot Chip are gearing up for the release of their fifth studio album In Our Heads which is due to drop on 11th June, but for the impatient child in all of us they’ve posted a little sample of what to expect with a dizzying new video for the track ‘Flutes’.

Seriously, if you’re feeling in any way queasy or hungover we suggest you don’t watch the video – it made us feel like that snake from Jungle Book just looked into our eyes.

Speaking to NME about the forthcoming album, Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard said, “It basically sounds like Hot Chip. We haven’t done anything particularly weird. We’ve made it on Conny Plank’s [Kraftwerk producer] mixing desk that he built.”

“It’s a beautiful thing. That’s what brought everything together for the new record. It’s a continuation with our love affair of different kinds of dance music.”

He also told Pitchfork that they picked ‘Flutes’ as the first song for fans to sample because he “like[s] it when bands come back with something that’s fresh and unusual, you know? It’s a more ambitious song than other things we’ve done in the past. I worked on it a lot to make sure it’s constantly developing in an unusual way. I’m pleased with how it turned out.”

Goddard also claimed that making In Our Heads was not as “agonizing” as some of the group’s previous albums but that Hot Chip had cast their net wider and broadened the overall scope of their music. “I’m obsessed with maxi-12″ extended mixes from the 80s,” he said. “Records from that time have such a beautiful big sound– they often are quite epic. There’s a lot of different sounds, and they’re seven or eight minutes long.”

“I really like those records. I like those moments in a club when people have been playing techno records for half an hour, and they drop a big Balearic record that brings everyone into that joyful moment. We were thinking a lot about those ecstatic moments.”

The tracklisting for ‘In Our Heads’ is as follows:

‘Motion Sickness’
‘How Do You
‘Don’t Deny Your Heart’
‘Look At Where We Are’
‘These Chains’
‘Night And Day’
‘Flutes’
‘Now There Is Nothing’
‘Ends Of The Earth’
‘Let Me Be Him’
‘Always Been Your Love’

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