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Yes it really is a full 20 years since Hot Chip first formed with founder members Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard. After a few EPs the duo were joined by current regulars Felix Martin, Al Doyle, and Owen Clarke to launch themselves into something of a synth and quirky pop stratosphere. Their debut album came out in 2004, called
Coming on Strong,
but it was the band’s follow up, 2006’s
The Warning
that bothered the charts with the singles
Boy from School and Over and Over,
going on to be nominated for the Mercury
Music Prize. Since then they’ve released five further albums including the Grammy-nominated
Made in the Dark
(2008) and 2019’s critically-aclaimed
A Bath Full of Ecstasy.
They are celebrating a couple of decades of success with a brand new album
Late Night Tales: Hot Chip,
the latest in the famous series of compilations which features tracks by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Fever Ray (among others), along with new material from the band themselves. Alexis Taylor and Felix Martin join us to discuss how much
things have changed since the early days of a Dell and Cubase (that’s a Dell PC, Not Adele).