HOT CHIP A Bath Full Of Ecstasy (Domino) A bath full of ecstasy is brilliantly two-sided, or double joking, as an album title for Hot Chip. Within it is captured something of the duality that’s long been there within the band’s electro-pop mission, though I’d hesitate to call it a dichotomy as that might suggest contradictory impulses from these smart, inventive folks. They’ve never been anything like makers of full-on bangers, and never easily categorised as an unequivocally

Checked out the first batch of best albums of the year? Good. Here's the concluding half, with ten more excellent releases. Buy them all. Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah – Sour Soul The instrumental Stark’s Reality, with its marimba flirting across a ‘70s crime film atmosphere (leaning bass, strings for emphasis rather than tension, shaker percussion more than drums) may be over in not much more than two minutes but its connection to a similar modern film noir soundtrack you