For Hot Chip, electro pop is a jumping-off point into a world of pathos and electronic experimentation. The UK group’s contribution to the Late Night Tales series is a guided tour of the outer limits of their taste and ambition. Though four of the group’s own tracks serve as tentpoles for the 62-minute mix, the album is structured more like a particularly adventurous after-hours set. After an atmospheric opening from Christina Vantzou, Hot Chip’s wistful “Nothing’s Changed” mixes seamlessly into Rhythm & Sound’s “King in My Empire,” an ambient-dub classic from Berlin’s Basic Channel crew; Pale Blue and Suzanne Kraft invoke vintage acid house and disco before Fever Ray and Planningtorock tug things into woozy avant-pop territory. Hot Chip’s almost a cappella cover of Velvet Underground’s “Candy Says” is a mid-album highlight before mind-expanding tracks from Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, About Group, and Beatrice Dillon kick off the set’s most psychedelic stretch; nestled between Nils Frahm’s contemplative solo piano and a bookending snippet from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Hot Chip’s “None of These Things” marks the album’s emotional climax. A gauzy ballad seemingly assembled from sighs and teardrops, it’s part roadhouse slow dance, part Pet Shop Boys, part 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love”—and all heart. It’s the perfect close to an album that even at its most experimental feels like a warm embrace.