“I might not be good at making streaming numbers but I can make music that is emotionally engaging. That’s more important than just getting a hit on a digital platform”: We speak to Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor

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Prolific as a creative, thoughtful as an interviewee, adept at delivering an electro banger in front of a huge festival crowd, Alexis Taylor is an impressive figure. As comfortable with plaintive introspection as he is ring-leading communal euphoria with his group, Hot Chip.

On his new solo record, Paris in the Spring, Taylor is keen to meld the production aesthetics of old with flavours of the new; “Some of the most inspiring elements of making the record happened in a short space of time in a studio in Paris via some element of happenstance,” Alexis tells us.