Listen to Hot Chip covering Joy Division for War Child

war child heroes Listen to Hot Chip covering Joy Division for War Child Not many bands could cover Joy Division without risking the goodwill they’ve accrued, but Hot Chip are more or less the best thing in modern music, so this is fine. Really, it’s fine.
Part of the forthcoming War Child Heroes album, ver Chip’s cover of ver Division’s “Transmission” incorporates steel drums and that weird effect where it sounds like someone is singing underwater what is that called I don’t know answers on a postcard, etc.
Give it a listen after the jump, where I shall also kindly place the tracklisting of Heroes, which features Beck, Duffy, Elbow, Scissor Sisters and many more familiar names.

Heroes‘ tracklisting:
1. Beck - Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Original Artist Bob Dylan)
2. Scissor Sisters - Do The Strand (Original Artist Roxy Music)
3. Lily Allen - Straight To Hell (Original Artist The Clash)
4. Duffy - Live And Let Die (Original Artist Paul McCartney)
5. Elbow - Running To Stand Still (Original Artist U2)
6. TV On The Radio - Heroes (Original Artist David Bowie)
7. Hot Chip - Transmission (Original Artist Joy Division)
8. The Kooks - Victoria (Original Artist The Kinks)
9. Estelle - Superstition (Original Artist Stevie Wonder)
10. Rufus Wainwright - Wonderful/ Song For Children (Original Artist Brian Wilson)
11. Peaches - Search And Destroy (Original Artist Iggy Pop)
12. The Hold Steady - Atlantic City (Original Artist Bruce Springsteen)
13. The Like - You Belong To Me (Original Artist Elvis Costello)
14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (Original Artist The Ramones)
15. Franz Ferdinand - Call Me (Original Artist Blondie)