The new Hot Chip video is great – fairly perfect visual accompaniment for a fantastic song. Especially like the one part where the guy moves the giant red pixel around like realtime Microsoft Paint, and the clever use of green screen throughout. Each time I hear “Over and Over” it blows me away a little more; How can one track contain just about everything I like in a song? It just can, I guess. I haven’t checked the lyrics too closely, but it seems to be about being bored with recycled culture. In that sense it almost comes off as bragadocio, like “everything else is boring retread, now watch us do something unique.” Bragging is so not indie rock, a point the music – a weird-ass mix of clomping techno beats, thrift electronics, wind chimes, fuzz guitar and crooned slang – only reinforces. All together it makes for a fairly perfect union of genre-splitting form and anti-genre content (seeing as Hot Chip clearly comes straight outta the indie rock diaspora). It’s also super good dancing-around-my-apartment music.

If none of the above makes sense please remember that I’m wearing a bath towel as I type this. I used “diaspora” on my blog! 8′] <— check the shades

See also: Hot Chip DJ set over at Beats in Space (first track = Devo of course), and this cool-looking blog with lots of music videos.