Ever since they bounded onto the scene singing about toy monkeys and miniature cymbals, Hot Chip have stuck out as dance-pop's odd guys.
Evolutionary psychologists may never be able to give us a convincing explanation, but there seems to be a certain type of man who enjoys hurling miniature stuffed monkeys across his office or staring in rapture as a pendulum creates oval designs in sand (Slingshot Flying Monkey, $3.99; Pit and the Pendulum, $39.99, at officeplayground.com).
Anj Smith's dark miniature with sinister monkeys, Jakub Julian Ziolkowski's figure-packed battle scene enacted under a table and Hilary Harkness's leggy vixens shipwrecked on a tropical beach all work alongside the Brueghels.
Tami McLallen, a spokeswoman for American Airlines, said that although dogs are the most common service animals taken onto planes, the airline has had to accommodate monkeys, miniature horses, cats and even an emotional support duck.
In this article, we review our studies of mixed chimerism in mice, miniature swine and monkeys, as well as the results of our recent clinical studies that have extended this treatment modality to a series of kidney transplant patients who have been successfully weaned from all immunosuppression while maintaining stable renal function for up to 8 years.
If you're ready for the floor, prepare to dance like a monkey with miniature cymbals.
For that matter, so would have a cat, a monkey, a miniature horse or even a potbellied pig, if they were certified.
Songs about monkeys with miniature cymbals suddenly seem very far away.
I could've been sat there, alone, drinking pints over and over and over and over and over, like a monkey with a miniature cymbal.
