Hot Chip are one of my favorite simple joys: I never expect one of their albums to change my life, but I always know it’ll have a set of expertly crafted, inhumanly catchy songs that I can throw on almost anytime, anywhere, and know I’ll enjoy them. Same goes for seeing them live. It doesn’t matter what setting or what time of day, a Hot Chip show is exhilarating; unless you have a thing against dance-oriented indie music, it’s impossible not to leave their gigs a little happier. Last night at Gov Ball, they played as the sun set behind us, running through a set that hardly let up for its hour-and-fifteen-minute duration. Pausing for a breather only once in the middle of the set with “Look At Where We Are,” Hot Chip otherwise ran a relentless party: always-welcome usual suspects (“Over And Over,” “One Life Stand,” and “Flutes”) mixed in with some of their stronger new songs (“Huarache Lights,” “Need You Now”). By the end, they had picked up an impossible momentum. “Ready For The Floor” was all the more dramatic for its extended intro and outro, the latter of which bled right into “I Feel Better,” which in turn died down and yielded to “Let Me Be Him.” That song started up just as it was getting dark and the lights from the stage brightened, a counterpoint to a song that sounds like a sunrise.

But we have to talk about the final song on Hot Chip’s setlist. I figured “Let Me Be Him” would be the closer, as Lana Del Rey’s and the Black Keys’ headlining sets were fast approaching. They went into something else though, something I knew wasn’t a Hot Chip song but couldn’t place immediately because of the way they’d turned it into their own. And then Alexis Taylor sang “I get up in the evening…” and I realized, “Oh, holy shit, Hot Chip is playing a Bruce Springsteen song.” “Dancing In The Dark” is probably my favorite song of all time, and they turned it into an epic dance song with all sorts of their own flourishes, including, incredibly, a tag of “All My Friends,” which is one of other favorite songs of all time. This is not something I’d seen Hot Chip do or something I was aware they do. But it was more or less the climactic moment of my last night at Governors Ball, and it was a hell of a thing to hear at the end of the weekend. –Ryan