Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor: ‘I like the chords my cat plays’

The singer has stripped everything back for his solo album,​ Piano. It’s inspired by divorce, John Lennon and, yes, random pet sounds. Is there anything he can draw on to give the Guardian​ a lesson?Alexis Taylor looks at the grand piano in front of us, and weighs up what makes it so special.“I like the fact it’s all laid out, you can see what you’re going to play, and yet you can still find new combinations of notes that surprise you,” he decides. ...

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