But in September, Sipprell killed himself. When people sit they seem to focus on the music more. He’s best known as the lead singer of British electronica band Hot Chip, but those who have dug around in the London musician’s wider discography will know Taylor is a bit of a musical polymath. To make a piano record is one very extreme way of making a not-overproduced record. I did Rubbed Out and Await Barbarians and an EP between that called Nayim From The Halfway Line, and while I was writing them I was really happy with them, but I just felt like I needed to get out of that mode of operating, get out of the room I was in, get away from the instruments I was using. “It’s ridiculous. I know this isn’t a psychoanalytical session we’re having but I think that’s why there’s this sort of mood in my music and this tendency to write introspective songs. We certainly don’t know how to do what most people do, which is ‘wave your hands in the air like you just don’t care’. “It’s more, when you start doing these other projects, how much time is there left for each other? Taylor didn’t stop at the thought though, recruiting a variety of musicians to build new versions of the tracks for a unique project. Hot Chip may be known as a dance band, but lead singer Alexis Taylor says he wouldn’t be caught dead at a rave. She will go with him to various festivals this summer and then Hot Chip will start on a new album. That song wasn’t written specifically about death, but about when a part of you feels like it has been crushed. It will have more of an electronic element to it... but we will see. Here, Hot Chip lead singer and keyboardist Alexis Taylor discusses a family Easter tradition that turned into an everlasting meditation on music, film and metaphors. A few of the songs on Piano, like "Repair Man", "I’m Ready", and "So Much Further To Go", were written at the piano and they just interested me in existing in a very underproduced way. On the record it takes on a slightly different meaning and I was very aware of that when I put it on the record. I’ve done years of gigs where people stand up, but I’ve already done a few Piano shows and it’s kind of refreshing. “I don’t really know quite why I wanted to strip things back from me on my own, but with multiple instruments, to me on my own with piano. “We were grouped in with that phase for a bit, but we didn’t really know why.”. “Of course there are periodic problems but they’re not big enough to pose a threat to the band. I didn’t think of it like that. Another reason is maybe you might enjoy the tactile process of syncing the two albums up - like if you wanted to enjoy listening to something in a different way. Last year, Taylor sat at the piano and played a mixture of cover and original songs for his third solo record Piano. “I’m only really at the beginning of talking about this record,” says Hot Chip’s lead singer, Alexis Taylor, of Why Make Sense? The blended version feels like a completely different album. His last, 2014’s Await Barbarians, was his take on a Prince production (he saw Prince nine times, he thinks and Hot Chip will do a special Prince DJ set for Glastonbury’s Block9 field). It’s difficult. Listen live on BBC Radio Ulster or find 'The Stephen McCauley Show' on BBC Sounds. Kinsella / 15 February 2017, 13:00 GMT. How did you select the people to contribute? I was looking to make something that was about a more open sound, about recording something elemental really well. Maybe we’re an anomaly among those who emerged at that moment.” Like the nu-ravers? In a way that lack of his contribution kind of led me into this Listen With(out) Piano record as I still had that unanswered question. “Reducing things.”, ‘Piano’ is out on 10 June on Moshi Moshi; Alexis Taylor plays Burgh House, London on 15 June. The band were a duo for most of their career, composed of Neil Arthur (vocals) and Stephen Luscombe (keyboards). An English band formed in 2000 by its lead singer and keyboardist, Alexis Taylor, and its main composer, Joe Goddard, Hot Chip is grounded in dance music but … It’s got electronic, acoustic, and avant-garde elements to it but it feels like a record of one kind of mood. To me, it sounds quite gospel like with a spiritual fragmented quality. Like the strings on the piano vibrating in a noisy way.” Is he obsessive? You can be a bit jealous… You might want that creative friendship that you always used to have, just the two of you.”, After a handful of small, seated gigs to promote Piano, Taylor already has his eye on his next solo project. Lead singer Alexis Taylor chats about not "spoon feeding" their fans whilst being influenced by Susan Boyle and UK Garage on fourth LP One Life Stand. When I read about Vince, I originally thought "Don't Worry" must be the tribute. (“I didn’t really practise any of it and I’m not really sure how good any of the piano-playing is – that’s another thing that’s exposed…”) He had planned to add some strings and was talking to his school-friend and long-time collaborator, Vince Sipprell about contributing viola. I didn’t construct it in advance and think 'now is the time'. I had covered it with Vince and Emma a couple of years ago - it wasn’t a knee-jerk reaction to him dying - I’d played it with him on stage and I just felt it would be fitting to document a cover, partly for his brother and partly in memory of him. All rights reserved. The album opens with “I’m Ready”, Taylor’s touching, sincere paean to the process of starting a new creative endeavour (“Don’t you know I’m ready/ Waited all my life to be… Meet you at the studio/ Show you how the notes could go”). In … Hot Chip might never have had a No 1 single – “Ready for the Floor” reached No 6 and won them a Grammy nomination – but the indie-dance stalwarts have released six studio albums, all critically acclaimed, are one of the best live acts around and, crucially, are still going, having formed in 2000 (though their roots go back further, to Taylor’s school days). His cover of Gayle’s “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue”, came from a vivid memory of his mother playing it in the car shortly after his parents split. I played one gig supporting someone when people were sat down and it kind of blew my mind that you could actually play a gig where people actually listened to it all the way through. I don’t really know quite why I wanted to strip things back from me on my own, but with multiple instruments, to me on my own with piano. For Piano, his new solo album, he has stripped everything back, so there are only two elements left – piano and voice – on a series of original songs and soulful covers of Elvis Presley, Crystal Gayle and Lone Pigeon songs, among others. “There’s so many things we could do that are just easy, that make people automatically feel connected to something – and we’re not really that kind of band. 1:09. It kind of weirdly connected to this person who has now gone forever. © 2020 Associated Newspapers Limited. Lead singer Alexis Taylor oscillated between the synths in the back of the stage and his spot at the front of the stage, using his mic as a conductor’s baton for the band and the room. By Certainly there is no hiding on the record, which is refreshing in its spareness and spontaneity. Hot Chip have recruited Jarvis Cocker for the electronic outfit’s new single, ‘Straight to the Morning’.. The group primarily produces music in the synth-pop and alternative dance genres, drawing influences from house and disco. “I wrote a whole record with Prudence as a baby in one hand. Lead singer Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard, Al Doyle, Owen Clarke and Felix Martin. I think it’s quite fun even if the original music I made wasn’t all about fun. I think that’s probably there because when you’re a kid and your parents break up that’s something you then spend the rest of your life going over in your mind and dealing with. “I was looking to make something that was about a more open sound, about recording something elemental really well. The members of Hot Chip are, by their own admission, incorrigible music nerds, so the genre’s history and form is their bread and butter. Hot Chip goes in a slightly different direction both musically and lyrically. On Hot Chip's seventh album, the UK band explore a tug-of-war that will be familiar to many of us in this modern moment: one between engaging and escaping. He is Taylor’s father, a Shakespeare scholar; his mother is a psychoanalyst and they divorced when Taylor was very young. It’s been a bit of a quiet passion of a mine for a while to maybe do that at some point in my career and I think that’s because I like a lot of bare, more intimate records that have a lot of space in them, like some of the Smog albums - Red Apple Falls, Plush, More You Becomes You - and even Randy Newman’s live record where he’s just at the piano. It is a deeply personal opus where Alexis soulfully sings his way through genres spanning from pop to country. He was a bit “exhausted” by the last record. He has also released two solo albums since 2008 and is now, quietly, preparing to release his third. I went to see Crystal Gale and I thought she was good - I kind of connected to the sound of her voice but she’s not thought of or respected as one of the great singers, but I think the songs are really well written. He plays music every day – “I’ve got enough instruments around the house I couldn’t really walk through it without wanting to.” He lives in north London with his wife, who works for the Twentieth Century Society, which campaigns to preserve modern buildings. Where the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine is made, after supply row with EU, Here's when the new lockdown measures in England could end, and how they'll be reviewed, 'I had depression, anxiety, all that trauma... leaving Fulham nearly killed me', When the Government's next Covid announcement is happening, and how to watch live, Fulham launch investigation into allegations of bullying and racism in academy. Hot Chip are an English alternative dance and indietronica band formed in London in 2000. I feel older and older,” says Taylor, who is 36. I’m not trying to be pretentious. What happens if it’s just the voice recorded well, the piano sounds good… To see if I could make a record that I liked that didn’t have loads of over-dubs.”, He chose the studio after he did a session there and fell for one of its microphones – a 1950s RCA ribbon mic of the kind Elvis would have used. Sorry, there was a problem with your subscription. ... For the moment Hot Chip … What happened was I asked all of those bands and artists to make a piece of music that would work in tandem with my track but also work on its own. Join Stephen McCauley this evening on his brand new show with quality alternative music and an interview with Hot Chip lead singer Alexis Taylor. It originated with his bandmate Joe Goddard urging Taylor to aim for a more "erotic" delivery. Will it be strange to have people sat down? It is the fifth track on their seventh studio album, A Bath Full of Ecstasy, and was released as its lead single on 4 April 2019 through Domino Recording Company Background. I don’t want to bore you but I spent a long time trying to get certain sounds out of the mix. It’s purer on its own.” “Just for a Little While”, written by Sipprell’s older brother, became the album’s tribute to him. The group consists of multi-instrumentalists Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard, Al Doyle, Owen Clarke, and Felix Martin. I feel like that’s where my mind was going for a while,” he says. I think my original idea was to have people making something that would work at 33 or 45, but I guess I couldn’t really work out a way of doing that. Joe Goddard has 2 Bears, Al Doyle has worked with LCD Soundsystem and Taylor has About Group, an avant-garde jazz project who do things like making an improvised album in a single day. I’m going to make another solo record, but I don’t think it will be quite as stripped back as Piano. Can you tell me about his influence? Photo: Richard Ecclestone. Cradling a cup of tea in a London members’ club, conspicuously dressed in a bright purple jumper, rolled … — Hot Chip (@Hot_Chip) March 31, 2019 Their new material initially seems to skew dark, with the beat-free Hungry Child – featuring plaintive lead vocals from Joe Goddard … You’ve said previously that this album celebrates lives of people passed and I know that Vince Sipprell had a big influence on this record. Originally, Alexis had hoped for Sipprell to contribute strings to Piano - as he had done with all his solo and Hot Chip records - but his death left the nagging question of what the album would have sounded like with strings. As lead singer of Hot Chip, Alexis Taylor is preparing to spend a good few weekends this summer whipping festival-goers […] By Alice Jones. I was planning to get him to contribute to the record - he had said yes - then I got caught up on working it a bit more and then at some point during the process of making it, he died. Not left to right. He recorded it at home and did everything himself – singing, playing all the instruments, except strings, mixing and recording it. English synth-pop band formed in Harrow, London, in 1979. Some people came to mind straight away and I already knew they’d be perfect for it, Brian DeGraw, Susumu Mukai, and Spring Hill Jack - I just knew straight away. Tickets here. He is not, though, your average bombastic frontman. I had worked with Vince and another friend of ours, Emma - they’d worked on my solo records and my Hot Chip records. “We certainly don’t know how to do what most people do, which is ‘wave your hands in the air like you just don’t care’. He finds it hard when critics accuse him of clever-clever cynicism in his music (the fact that he studied at Cambridge is not unconnected). They’ve also made a career of matching sophisticated dance-pop to tragicomically unsophisticated heartache and yearning. “The desire to put yourself in the open, in that exposed way, there is an element of it in everything I do. What goes on in your life that inspires you to write something might be quite boring in comparison to what you tap into emotionally about that idea of losing something. Of course there are the big disco, house tracks I make, but even within those, there are moments that are unguarded. What happens if it’s just the voice recorded well, the piano sounds good… To see if I could make a record that I liked that didn’t have loads of over-dubs. Photo by Ronald Dick Music News Hot Chip Bringing in synths, keyboards and the effervescent vocals of lead singer Alexis Taylor, the latest single from England’s Hot Chip is … It’s also like these new pieces of music are ghostly imprints of the tracks I’ve made as they kind of echo what’s going on musically. This is Listen With(out) Piano, an album that can be played on its own or in sync with the original Piano - the overall project provides three totally unique listening experiences (head here to find out more). Last year, Taylor sat at the piano and played a mixture of cover and … We play a set of good songs that people like and know, as well as some new songs that they don’t know. Lead singer Alexis Taylor chats about not "spoon feeding" their fans whilst being influenced by Susan Boyle and UK Garage on fourth LP One Life Stand. The desire to put yourself in the open, in that exposed way, there is an element of it in everything I do. Most of my solo shows I’ve just played the keyboards, or the guitars, and some people have listened or some people have talked all the way through, and I’ve never said to anyone 'you need to be quiet while I’m playing my music'. In the vein of Kraftwerk with traces of the Talking Heads, Hot Chip’s use of a vocoder was reminiscent of these early innovators. I hadn’t really thought of it that way myself, but I can hear that now you say it. 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What would you say to them? By their second album Hot Chip had added a whole lot more party to their sound, and from then on they’ve been part of so many of our memories. We can’t stomach doing those crowd-pleasing things,” he says. The video features a white-haired man in a pink shirt playing the tune on a piano. There will be some people who read about the three versions and think why? A memory of his father playing the piano – “the first moment I was conscious that music could make me cry” – also inspired “Repair Man”, a song Taylor co-wrote with Green Gartside. It’s kind of a greatest non-hits set,” he smiles, a wry little grin that almost, but not quite, reaches the bottom of his glasses. Whether people like it or not, I don’t know, but it’s certainly purer. Why did you want Piano to be simply just you and piano? I had really enjoyed that process of making my music or Hot Chip music and sending it to Emma and Vince and seeing what they came up with in terms of strings. You work it out. He didn’t have a set-list before he went into the studio and recorded most tracks in one take: “I just figured out how to do them as the tape was rolling.” The bulk of the work came after – he has listened to the recordings endlessly over the past six months, tinkering with the running order and the mixing. I don’t have that idea that the music my parents listen too is 'not cool'. That was to do with a time when Hot Chip signed a deal years ago and soon as it was signed I thought it was the wrong thing to do - I hadn’t been in agreement with everybody about it in the band and then I remember just thinking ‘oh that’s it then’... it was kind of just a despondent miserable feeling. Hot Chip was formed by lead singer Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard when they were studying back in secondary school. “I don’t want to be among 100,000 people at some dance festival,” Taylor says. Hayley Williams has released a new version of her song ‘Dead Horse’ which has been remixed by Hot Chip. The songs on the album, lots of them are to do with that sense of loss - your parents breaking up, someone dying, or a breakup. It is intensely personal, but that is Taylor’s way. It crosses my mind sometimes to make something that’s completely abstract, just noises of recording, like tape hiss. The original song, which appeared on the Paramore lead singer’s solo debut Petals for Armor, has been given a special reworking by the indie group. “So people keep telling us, yeah. However, his latest release Listen With (out) Piano may be his most risky to date. What are your plans for the upcoming tour? The pair have been making music since they were 13, at Elliott School in south London and still get on. “We were grouped in with that phase for a bit, but we didn’t really know why.”, We spend a lot of money on just putting the show together, paying people to help us move the gear around. (due out May 18). As lead singer of Hot Chip, Alexis Taylor is preparing to spend a good few weekends this summer whipping festival-goers around the world into a frenzy. I wrote "Repair Man" a few years ago, and during the writing of the song, just a memory of sitting behind my dad and watching him play a John Lennon song, and being quite moved by it, came back to me. Paddy It’s difficult to maintain a level of success while people don’t pay for music anymore. Prince was making records from 1978 and was still going and people weren’t saying ‘how come?’ I’m pleased that we’re still going but we’re not an anomaly. “Each of us has our own ways of being obsessional.”. The influence on the record is that once I’d made 90% of the album, I added a cover of another song "Just For A Little While’, which Vince’s brother wrote and Vince sang. June 8, … “So I was left with this thing where I was on my own. It was that suicide in a way that led to new album Listen With(out) Piano. It’s kind of related to a DJ set up - the idea of playing them both at the same time. “Every parent is a proud parent but there’s definitely something there.” She has travelled the globe with her parents and Hot Chip (“35 different countries!”) and likes to make the odd appearance on stage with Evie, Goddard’s daughter. lexis Taylor’s morning has “not been without some stress”. https://rateyourmusic.com › release › album › hot-chip › the-warning He co-founded Hot Chip with lead vocalist Alexis Taylor in 2000. The breakup of my parents is something I don’t think about all the time but something just brought it to my attention whilst I was in kind of a bit of a sad state myself. As the lead singer of Britain’s most consistent electronic band, Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor is no stranger to experimentation. However, his latest release Listen With(out) Piano may be his most risky to date. The band’s longevity might be down to the fact that its members have never been afraid of doing their own thing on the side. The Frame caught up with lead singer Alex Taylor of Hot Chip about the process of … However, if they did have both albums, they could put them on and mix them together and it would kind of enhance Piano. “It’s not easy for Hot Chip to keep making money. Since then - and some impressive 15 years later - … Songfacts®: This funky and seductive track is partly a nod to Hot Chip co-lead singer Alexis Taylor's great hero, Prince. Then in terms of the Crystal Gale song ["Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue"], I have a strong connection to the music I grew up on. They quite often miss the things I think fans like – the direct emotional hit of it.”. I’d even consider going more minimal if that’s possible. Hot Chip band member Joe Goddard explained to the New Musical Express why the band wanted to make the change: "We wanted to record properly as a band for the first time. Check out new preview "Lonely Vagabond (Blended Mix)" by Rupert Clervaux and Taylor, and read our interview after. It doesn’t come naturally to us. Hot Chip have become labelled the "geek band" because, visually and musically, they stand out like sore thumbs in a British music scene littered with trilby-hatted indie kids. We spend a lot of money on just putting the show together, paying people to help us move the gear around. Giving people that sort of brief meant that they could interpret that however they wanted - they got what I asked them to do but also felt quite free. “Looking around me at all those drum machines, keyboards, guitars, bongos… you feel like, ‘I could make another record like that but I don’t really want to’.”, Instead, he recorded the whole thing in three days at the tiny Hackney Road Studios in east London. I just love the softness. So she’s kind of been around music, from the moment she’s been alive,” he says. For this album I knew I was making a piano record, but I was thinking that it may be good if there were a small amount of strings, and I thought Vince would be great at doing that. On stage, he is barely more forthcoming, singing reedily, often standing side-on to the crowd – who love it nonetheless. Hot Chip. Also, Vince had been in my mind a lot and I had finished the Piano record, but I always had that nagging feeling of what would have it sounded like with Vince’s strings on it. Both your parents are on this album - your mum used to listen to "Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue", which you cover on Piano, and your father first introduced you to the instrument playing John Lennon to you - why did you choose to embed them in this record? If you want to listen to a new record that needs to have no obvious connection to my music then I think Listen With(out) Piano sounds really good from start to finish. "We've been talking about doing something a bit more Prince-y for a … This album is a simple affair, breaking it down to the basics of a man, his voice, and a piano. Hot Chip: from left, Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard, Felix Martin, Al Doyle and Owen Clarke. We can’t stomach doing those crowd-pleasing things, Sixteen years is a long time for any band. Everyone’s adult enough to learn when to do something else for a bit.”, Are they competitive over solo projects? I’ve become quite, momentarily at least, dissatisfied with the working methods I was going through for making records. There was an element of that in the sequencing of the record. I’m also at some point going to start making another Hot Chip record. They are occasionally supplemented by Rob Smoughton and Sarah Jones for live performances and studio recordings. Do you plan to release more music like Piano? Of course there are the big disco, house tracks I make, but even within those, there are moments that are unguarded. My bedroom is only six foot wide and it's got my bed in it, so I would have had to choose between my girlfriend and the band if I wanted to record it all in there! Their six-year old daughter, Prudence, is learning piano, having already mastered the drums, over hours spent in the studio and backstage at gigs. Spiritualized made an album called Pure Phase Tones For DJs and it just has different pitches of the same drone throughout the record, so if you have that record you can then put it alongside other records and you’ve got this drone you can put on in line with any key of any other record; I think from there I started thinking about this record. I wanted to put that song on a record as it’s a good song that never got a wider release. “I suppose I was building the record around the opportunity to try something out with that amazing microphone. ... the band's lead singer, recently told The Guardian. Get a FREE DOWNLOAD of "I Became A Volunteer" -- http://tinyurl.com/338fuqhttp://www.hotchip.co.ukhttp://www.myspace.com/hotchipReleased January … I had been thinking about making a piano record for a few years, and it’s not that I write all of these songs at the piano, but occasionally you’ll just sit down at the piano and see what they sound like in that way. I think with a lot of other people's records, sometimes I’m listening to them and occasionally wanting less production, sometimes hoping for a more intimate listening experience. Which is obvious,” says Taylor, who has just come from a meeting with the band’s accountant. He is the lead singer of Hot Chip and now he has stepped out on his own for a third time with his latest album, Piano. People who write about Hot Chip quite often think there’s trickery going on… layers of humour. Goddard gives us a taste of the familiar with the title track, featuring vocals by Hot Chip’s lead singer Alexis Taylor. What came out of this session was potentially his most personal album of his career: it documented his parents' breakup, the first time he cried at music, and the suicide of his friend and longtime collaborator, Vince Sipprell. As the lead singer of Britain’s most consistent electronic band, Hot Chip ’s Alexis Taylor is no stranger to experimentation. "Hungry Child" is a song by British synth-pop band Hot Chip. Today he is small, serious, softly spoken and owlish in a large pair of tortoiseshell glasses that cover most of his cheeks, and a baggy sweatshirt that shouts HA in ironic capital letters. The rest of the record has the casual, intimate feel of a session with Taylor dipping in and out of his record collection. He and Goddard were in the studio the other day, working on something, which may or may not make it onto the new album. “Anything you hear that isn’t the sound of that piano or voice starts to annoy you. They do this through contradictions. 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