Hot Chip‘s Alexis Taylor has announced a new solo album, Paris In The Spring, which will be out March 13 via Night Time Stories. The album features contributions from Air’s Nicolas Godin, The Avalanches, Étienne de Crécy, Lola Kirke, Pierre Rousseau (Paradis), Ewan Pearson, Elizabeth Wight (Pale Blue), Oli Bayston (Boxed In), and Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside.
Where his previous solo albums have been more spare and singer-songwriter-oriented, Paris in the Spring embraces all of Taylor’s interests. “Sometimes an audience wants to be told, what is this?”, says Taylor. “And I’m refusing to do that. You can find great things in music when you open up to real listening. No one needs to be told ‘what something is’, otherwise why would we be making something so straightforward? Be ready to be surprised, to find something new in music, and let the music resonate with you.”
The first single from the album is “Out of Phase” which features Lola Kirke and Oli Bayston, and was inspired by David Lynch. Alexis says: “There are daydreams full of dread sometimes – thankfully not all the time. The mind can be filled, or overloaded, and mystery can be misleading – or leading. And soon you are on a Lost Highway. This is the first song Oli Bayston and I made together, and was a much-needed tonic for carrying on with making this album. This process involved finding incredible musical partners and then sometimes losing them altogether, as life gets in the way – just as much as it was also about losing friends literally to death. But the new musical partners are to be celebrated as much as the death of friends is to be focused upon. Nashville singer Lola Kirke was the missing ingredient in this song – her voice takes a lonely cowboy’s mystery into a modern duet of love, yearning and searching.”
Watch the video below.
Paris In The Spring
Your Only Life
I Can Feel Your Love
Out Of Phase (feat. Lola Kirke) 04:45
Wild Horses
Colombia
For A Toy
On A Whim (feat. Green Gartside)
Fainting By Numbers
mp3s Can Make You Cry
Black Lodge In The Sky