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Inside the psychedelic video to Joe Goddard’s Home
The Hot Chip man walks us through his new Pete Fowler-directed short. “I wanted to capture that feeling of going home in a cab but it feeling joyful… a psychedelic disco party.”
Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard is preparing to release his debut solo album Electric Lines this April – and if new single Home is anything to go by, it’s going to be a treat.
I was hoping Home would have that lovely, slightly spiritual or soulful quality
A heady disco anthem about getting back to your happy place blessed with a vocal from Daniel Wilson, it also boasts a gorgeous Pete Fowler-directed video that follows a cab journey through the city as late night gives way to early morning.
Watch the video to Home below and read on to hear Joe’s reflections on the track and video.
Joe Goddard talks Home
I’ve always felt it’s quite evocative when you’ve been out, and you get into a cab, and it’s six o’clock in the morning and Magic FM or Heart FM is on. Occasionally there are tracks on there that are really good, but a lot of it is what you’d call guilty pleasures. In that frame they can sound really great. I wanted to capture that feeling of going home in a cab but it feeling joyful, a lovely end to the evening.
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I wrote the song using samples of this old '70s soul funk band Brainstorm’s song We’re On Our Way Home. That gives you a concept for the meaning of the song already. I wanted something a little like Promised Land by Joe Smooth. You know, that classic Chicago house thing. I was hoping the words would have that lovely, slightly spiritual or soulful quality.
Daniel Wilson, the singer of the track, came down to my studio one afternoon. We talked it through as a concept, and very quickly, we just did a couple of takes. He’s from a small town in Michigan, and he's got that quite soulful, gospel Detroit voice which I absolutely love.
I thought Pete [Fowler]'s style would fit with that idea of a psychedelic disco party
We asked Pete Fowler to do the visuals for the track. I’m a good friend of his – I love his DJ sets and a lot of his graphic design work – he works with The Social, Super Furry Animals, loads of good stuff. He used to throw psychedelic warehouse parties a few years ago called Mentasm, where he'd just play this crazy psychedelic music.
I liked the idea that the video switched from being live action to video at the point the track switches into the Brainstorm sample. I though Pete’s visual style would really fit with that – the idea of it becoming a sort of psychedelic disco party.
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