Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard releases his debut solo album “Harvest Festival” on Greco-Roman, the label he co-founded with Alexander ‘Full Nelson’ Waldron. A largely instrumental, electronic album, it winds from woozy ambience to the polyrhythms of London’s clubland and back again, and has a strange fixation with fruit. Highlights include the opener “Apple Bobbing”, the melancholy vocal track “Lemon & Lime (Home Time)” and the sinisterly beautiful “Sour Grapes”.“I wanted to do things that would feel a little out of place on a Hot Chip album, like having long instrumental passages and loops”, he explains.

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Joe Goddard: Sour Grapes [mp3 via Fact]

Joe Goddard’s solo album “Harvest Festival”, is out now on Greco-Roman. Listen to his album here in full and get your copy.

In other Hot Chip news, the always-busy Brits are currently putting the finishing touches on their fourth album, which is due to be released in February of 2010. The band is offering a new track (for free) to anyone who pre-orders the album via its website

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