Hot Chip are a bit like in a rom-com-sit-com-type-thing where the two friends are looking for romance, getting it wrong, then realising it was under their noses and right in front of them. You know loads of their songs. You listen to them more often than not. You're happy when they pop up on shuffle. But it takes a record like this to realise, wait a minute, you really love them.

It sounds like Hot Chip have realised they're in love too. This is a record full of Alexis Taylor's brittle hymns to girls and longing, but also to longing fulfilled. Edging towards settling down. There are loads of lyrical diamonds scattered about, a simple idea held up and sang to. "Happiness is what we all want." "I've know for a long time/You are my love light." "Nothing is wasted/And life is worth living."

Not that this is being set to heartfelt acoustic plucking. It's set to upbeat and thrilling dance music, full of the drive, switches and shifts of the best grin-making house or dancing-feet soul. Hot Chip are even better now at synthesising all the elements of music they love into a seamless whole. Pop-dance-indie bands used to be so clunkingly awkward a few years ago, but Hot Chip corral and use pop music and the studio flawlessly.

There are two perfectly pitched gags on here - a hook consisting of singing Jackie Gleason's "Humana, humana, humana" deadpan, and a silly squelching sound rounding off One Life Stand. They're even brave and meta enough to call their slushy song Slush, because it's really not slushy at all, just grand and sad and perfect. If this is settling-down music, well, give me my slippers and lucky crossword pen.