Hot Chip Announce New Album and Spring Tour Dates

The "Hot Chip Announce New Album" news is official: the British electronic five-piece will release their ninth studio record, A Long Way From Kansas, in January 2027 on Domino Records, and have lined up a six-date UK and Ireland tour for March 2027. The announcement, made this week, pairs the record with a first single that pays tribute to one of Glasgow's most loved club figures.

The single, "Random Violence," honors Keith McIvor — the DJ, curator and promoter better known as JD Twitch of Optimo — who died in September 2025 after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. According to God Is In The TV, band member Joe Goddard said McIvor largely inspired the song's lyrics, with many lines reaching back to nights at Sub Club in Glasgow, where the band first met him two decades ago. Al Doyle described the track's theme as "human connection."

The video, directed by Jack Cole, stars the all-female progressive morris dancing side Boss Morris in what Doyle called "an absolute blast" of a shoot — a celebration of togetherness, music, resistance and love inspired by the spirit of Optimo's famous Espookio Halloween parties. The clip leans into folk ritual rather than club gloss — a deliberate contrast with the single's electronic pulse, and a visual rhyme with the record's themes of remembrance and resistance.

What the new record holds

The eleven-track album opens with "Stuck Around" and closes with "Crushing," with guest appearances from Beth Ditto on "Me In Your Head" and Eddie Chacon on "The Garden" in between. The title nods to The Wizard of Oz — Dorothy, her dog and the long road home — a wink at finding some sense of normality after a turbulent stretch. It arrives via the label in several physical formats: a deluxe double gatefold LP with an extra seven-inch, a standard double LP, CD and digital. First pressings of the deluxe and standard LPs will carry a limited-edition spot-gloss and foil-blocking sleeve.

The band recorded at their East London studio earlier this year, and singer Alexis Taylor said the sessions were shadowed by a world that felt harsh and discordant, with distortion becoming a watchword for the record. The release extends an eight-album arc stretching back to 2000, when Taylor, Goddard, Owen Clarke, Doyle and Felix Martin first started making music together — a run built on melody, rhythm and feeling in equal measure.

Where to catch them live

Tonight, October 21, 2026, the band will DJ alongside friends at the Glasgow club at the heart of the tribute, in a night celebrating McIvor's legacy timed to the announcement. Then comes the Hot Chip Announce New Album live rollout: six dates across the first half of March 2027, taking in Dublin, Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester, Bristol and London.

Tickets reward the physical buyers: pre-ordering the album in any format unlocks pre-sale access, with the general sale opening on October 23, 2026. The pre-order-to-presale pipeline makes the record itself the ticket to early access — a neat loop for fans who still want something to hold. The announcement covers UK and Ireland dates only so far, so fans elsewhere will be watching for additions.

Hot Chip are not the only veteran act back in the ring. Gnarls Barkley recently released their first album in eighteen years, Atlanta, and will tour the UK in December behind it. Where that comeback leans on nostalgia for a mid-2000s smash, Hot Chip's return leans into the present-tense club culture that raised them: a tribute single, a DJ set tonight, and a record shaped by the dancefloor rather than the rearview mirror.

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