Hot Chip Hard At Work On New LP

The band sits down with NME this week to update us on progress for the follow-up to last year's The Warning.

"We recorded six songs in January as a live band, which is something we haven't done before much. So they're all going to be on the next record. There's six or seven songs which are pretty much finished which Alexis (Taylor) and I did on my computer.

"We're going to try and knit those two things together. I'm still not sure how that's going to work, but we're going to try that. The tracks that we recorded live will sound pretty different. They won't have all the stuff from the last two records, such as the tiny bits of percussions and loops because they're live takes. So, they're going to be pretty different, more raw and more distorted and louder.

"The other songs that me and Alexis have been making on my computer have the same kind of sound, which is that Hot Chip sound, if you can call it that. If anything they're a bit more frenetic and tribal and crazy. There are also some quiet, folky songs."

MP3: Hot Chip - Boy From School