Today, pop band Hot Chip has announce that their ninth album, A Long Way From Kansas will be release on January 8, through Domino and  it finds the band at their most primal. Paraphrasing The Wizard of Oz, the title is a nod towards Dorothy, her dog Toto and the distance they needed to travel to get back home and find some sense of normality. A Long Way From Kansas follows Hot Chip’s appearance in the second season of Netflix’s Beef earlier this year.

The first single to be shared from the record is “Random Violence,” a majestic tribute to Optimo’s Keith McIvor, which sets the tone for the album. A passionate socialist, Keith (aka JD Twitch) was a DJ, a curator and one of the country’s most forward-thinking promoters, a man who inspired the power of positivity in the people he worked with and played for, which is an effect echoed in what Al Doyle calls the song’s “human connection.”

Directed by Jack Cole, the video for “Random Violence” features the all-female progressive morris dancing group Boss Morris and is a beautiful celebration of togetherness, music, resistance, love and a life well lived. They shall not pass. The music video serve as a reminder to enjoy life because things can change in an instant.

A Long Way From Kansas Track List

1. Stuck Around
2. Waiting Around
3. Random Violence
4. The Mask Is Slipping
5. Splinter
6. Shortcut To Love
7. Me In Your Head (feat. Beth Ditto)
8. Hook Me Up
9. Secular Hymns
10. The Garden (feat. Eddie Chacon)
11. Crushing

Photo Credit: Jenna Houchin