Hot Chip: One Life Stand (Parlophone)
Simon Price, The Word, February 2010
THE NAME, of course, is one of pop's great double entendres. As well as carrying the sense of overloaded silicon circuitry, "Hot Chip" — like "Led Zeppelin" — is also a self-deprecating and pessimistic prediction regarding their own probable career prospects: they would surely be, the gag goes, "dropped like a hot chip".
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