New Hot Chip (Alexis Taylor solo track)

I’ve had an odd relationship with Hot Chip. When they started out, I was not a fan at all. I was NME Radar editor at the time and it all seemed so kitsch and unambitious. My friend Tim Jonze once pitched them to me as “hip-hop made on Gameboy’s”. He was being positive, but I took it as symbolic of why I disliked them. They’re the only band whom I refused to give a NME new band piece too and subsequently regretted the decision (that said Tim was also championing The Research ...

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