If you’re not familiar with Hot Chip, let me introduce you: Hot Chip is a synth-driven, pop-fantastic, disco fancy, funk-rock, dancey, sentimental, sassy, experimental anomaly from London. They make original music that doesn’t always make musical sense—by that I don’t mean it’s hard to digest because most of it is enjoyable to listen to. However, they offer melodies, sounds and chord progressions that keep the listener interested and often thinking, “I didn’t expect that.” Their sound is their own and there isn’t another band like them. Not even close. And when you’ve got a good thing going, why make sense?
I took a half hour last week to chat with Hot Chip’s Al Doyle. If you Google him you’ll notice he sports the hair of a man who just took …show more content…
is the band’s sixth full length—and it’s excellent. Trust me. I’ve heard it. If you backtrack and listen to Hot Chip from beginning (Coming on Strong) to present, you’ll notice they’ve been consistently good—something that’s hard to do. I asked Al: How does the group keep making great music? “If I could explain that quickly I could probably bottle it up and sell it. There are albums that I’m probably happier with than others.” I interjected and asked him what his favorite Hot Chip album is. He said, “I like the new one.” He continued, “I think that’s one of the things we’ve always done, which is a strength, is just generate a lot of material. Alexis and Joe are writing a lot of music and I’m writing a lot of music, playing in different bands and I was very lucky to play with LCD Soundsystem, for instance. I got a lot of experience from being around such an inspiring group of musicians, which is very useful. That’s a very boring answer—work hard! But that’s it. I think it’s about being lucky and not getting to some stupid level of success where things become a bit more unreal. We’ve stayed grounded and listen to other people. We respect people enough when we hear them say no. And you need that. We’re also respectful of each other’s opinions and there’s a level of internal quality
I took a half hour last week to chat with Hot Chip’s Al Doyle. If you Google him you’ll notice he sports the hair of a man who just took …show more content…
is the band’s sixth full length—and it’s excellent. Trust me. I’ve heard it. If you backtrack and listen to Hot Chip from beginning (Coming on Strong) to present, you’ll notice they’ve been consistently good—something that’s hard to do. I asked Al: How does the group keep making great music? “If I could explain that quickly I could probably bottle it up and sell it. There are albums that I’m probably happier with than others.” I interjected and asked him what his favorite Hot Chip album is. He said, “I like the new one.” He continued, “I think that’s one of the things we’ve always done, which is a strength, is just generate a lot of material. Alexis and Joe are writing a lot of music and I’m writing a lot of music, playing in different bands and I was very lucky to play with LCD Soundsystem, for instance. I got a lot of experience from being around such an inspiring group of musicians, which is very useful. That’s a very boring answer—work hard! But that’s it. I think it’s about being lucky and not getting to some stupid level of success where things become a bit more unreal. We’ve stayed grounded and listen to other people. We respect people enough when we hear them say no. And you need that. We’re also respectful of each other’s opinions and there’s a level of internal quality