As if I didn’t like the cerebral English dance act Hot Chip already, the video for their new single is laden with references to Tim Burton’s Batman, the superhero movie that makes all subsequent superhero movies look like the humorless, gutless, visually inert experiments in tedium they are. I count Axis Chemicals, the little giftwrapped box that the Joker sends Vicki Vale a gasmask in, throwing paint at the statues, “you’re my number one guy,” Prince’s half-Joker “Gemini” character and Vicki Vale’s black dress from the “Batdance” video…I am in LOVE.
