Hot Chip progress on new album

Hot Chip are making steady progress on their new album, the band have said.

The bands last release was 2006’s ’The Warning’, and member Joe Goddard has revealed that the band have worked on at least six new songs for the album.

Goddard said: “We recorded six songs in January as a live band, which is something we haven’t done before much. So they’re all going to be on the next record. There’s six or seven songs which are pretty much finished which Alexis (Taylor) and I did on my computer.

“We’re going to try and knit those two things together. I’m still not sure how that’s going to work, but we’re going to try that.”

Speaking about the sound of the album he said: “The tracks that we recorded live will sound pretty different. They won’t have all the stuff from the last two records, such as the tiny bits of percussions and loops because they’re live takes. So, they’re going to be pretty different, more raw and more distorted and louder.

“The other songs that me and Alexis have been making on my computer have the same kind of sound, which is that Hot Chip sound, if you can call it that. If anything they’re a bit more frenetic and tribal and crazy. There are also some quiet, folky songs.”

Goddard says the band will then record a couple of more songs live, and “maybe mix it in June.” He told Stylus magazine that he would like the album to come out this year.