Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

Melding streamlined electronica and angular post-punk forms seems to be all the rage amongst the more adventurous fringes of the industry these days, and no one has done it with more aplomb and with more creativity than British collective Hot Chip. Taking equal parts artistic inspiration from luminaries like Kraftwerk and Joy Division, Hot Chip have well-deservedly seen their star soar high in the firmament of contemporary and leftfield pop, netting critical and commercial acclaim for their groundbreaking albums and their revolutionary remixes for artists as diverse as Tracey Thorn, Gorillaz and Queens of the Stone Age. Check out their innovative version of fellow like-minded musical explorers Vampire Weekend’s ‘Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa’, a genre-defying melange of brightly coloured Congolese soukous, accessible synth-pop and good, old-fashioned rock and roll values, featuring a certain Peter Gabriel on lead vocals.