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| Single by Hot Chip from the album The Warning |
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| B-side | "A Family in Here" "The Girl in Me" |
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| Released | March 2006 | ||||
| Format | CD, download, 12", 7" | ||||
| Genre | Electro-pop, alternative | ||||
| Label | EMI | ||||
| Writer(s) | Hot Chip | ||||
| Producer | Hot Chip | ||||
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"Over and Over" was the first single from Hot Chip's Mercury Music Prize nominated second album The Warning. It was released twice in the UK in 2006 - first getting to #32 in March and getting to #27 in October.
The single was rated as the NME single of the year in 2006 by UK music magazine the NME.[1] It was described as "a rhapsodic, DFA-sized slice of smart pop."[2] Pitchfork described it as "mechanical...crunchy".[3] The track first appeared in December 2004 on a studio mix by Radio Soulwax. The mix was broadcast in Australia, the UK (as the Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1), and in Belgium (as Hang The Year 2004 on Studio Brussel).
It featured in Combat, an episode of Torchwood in 2006, and is currently the title music for the BBC's The Culture Show. The Magic Numbers covered the song for Radio 1's Live Lounge. The track also features in the Xbox 360 videogame, Project Gotham Racing 4, by Bizarre Creations.
The cover art is by Wallzo and Owen Clarke and matches the other releases from The Warning.
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Critical reception
NME described "Over and Over" as being an "insanely catchy kitchen-sink club-stomper". The lyrics "Laid-back? We'll give you laid-back" were described as a "thinly-veiled raised middle finger to detractors who considered them 'too chilled'".[4]
US release
Over and Over was released on 29 November, 2005 on DFA/Astralwerks. The B side, "Just Like We (Breakdown) [DFA Remix]", didn't chart. Allmusic said that Over and Over's "pulsing groove [is] suggestive of old stuff (Liquid Liquid) and new (the Rapture, Who Made Who)". [5]
First UK release
Over and Over was released on 27 February, 2006 on EMI.
CDS track listing
- "Over and Over"
- "A Family in Here"
- "Over and Over" (Justus Köhncke's Baking Horse Club Mix)
- "Over and Over" (Video)
7" track listing
- "Over and Over"
- "The Girl In Me"
Second UK release
Over and Over was released again on 9 October, 2006. The cover art featured the blocks of The Warning as slices of cake. As well as new remixes by Maurice Fulton, Mock and Toof and Booka Shade, the single featured a cover of the Marvin Gaye song "Sexual Healing"
CDS1 track listing
- "Over and Over"
- "Grubbs"
CDS2 track listing
- "Over and Over"
- "Sexual Healing"
- "Over and Over" [Mock & Toof Dub]
12" track listing
- "Over and Over" [Maurice Fulton Dub]
- "Over and Over" [Mock & Toof Dub]
- "Just Like We (Breakdown)" [Booka Shade Vocal Mix]
- "Just Like We (Breakdown)" [Booka Shade Dub Mix]
7" track listing
- "Over and Over" [Maida Vale Session Version]
- "Sexual Healing"
Music video
The song has a distinctive music video, directed by Nima Nourizadeh, which features the band members in what appears to be a heavily special effects-laden production, effects which are rarely seen in the video, instead having the band members performing in a stylized green screen stage, with several bored-looking assistants in green bodysuits holding props (at one point, in an attempt to recreate a bicycle ride, moving trees around to create an illusion of movement).
References
- ^ Hot Chip named track of the year | News | NME.COM
- ^ Hot Chip - Hot Chip: Over And Over - Track Reviews - NME.COM
- ^ Over and Over | Pitchfork
- ^ Worthy, Stephen. "Hot Chip: The Warning". NME. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- ^ allmusic Over and Over Overview
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