Hot Chip's most striking musical comments are hip-hop hooks in songs like "Shining Escalade" — "I want a shining SUV/People see me differently...." — adding a mournful mood to the expected boastful clichés. The band adds everything antithetical to hip-hop and places it in a hip-hop hook. "Instead of riding in a Hummer or something, it's öriding in my Peugeot,' and instead of Dr. Dre, it's Yo La Tengo," Goddard says. Fortunately this sort of thoughtful commentary doesn't prevent the bandmates from putting on an amazing live show. According to Goddard, the group "lines up with the keyboards, sort of like Kraftwerk," adding that "people have also compared our live performances to that of New Order."
