"Well, none of the lyrics I wrote for the album really have anything to do with comfortable-ness. Some of them involve tensions you feel between trying to make something work, whether it’s music or a relationship, and letting things that happen naturally. Like, focusing on a child’s heart beating to keep it alive rather than being in angst about a heart being broken."

"It’s easy to be confident on the first record, because you’ve not been through the process of people fucking with you. That’s sometimes why first records are good— because people are entirely in their own world."

"As a culture, dance music is sometimes perceived to be exclusionary, but its most basic pleasures lie in the escapism that the raw materials provide. Whether you’re getting pummeled by a club’s soundsystem or enjoying the comforts that a decent pair of headphones provide, the right tune can turn you starry-eyed, wiping your mind totally blank and making you happy to be alive just so you could be present to experience that very moment. Hot Chip understand that feeling, and through the broad populist strokes that frequently make up their work, they want everyone to experience it. That’s why they’re an important band, but In Our Heads isn’t the work of a band that’s attempting to assert its relevance. It’s a meditation on positivity, a hedonistic joyride that isn’t afraid to get deep, and a reminder that any band— any album, any song— can be your life, even for just a moment. Hot Chip do this for themselves, but also, for us."

"Goddard complains about the lack of imperfection in modern pop, about it being full of records that “feel like they’ve come from a factory that tries to correct everything and takes out all the flaws that make everything really lovable for me. Pop music’s become quite conservative in a lot of ways."