About this episode

The episode explores the making of Hot Chip's second album, The Warning, featuring insights from band members Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard.

For the 20th anniversary of the second Hot Chip album, The Warning, we take a detailed look at how it was made. Joe Goddard and Alexis Taylor initially connected as young teenagers in secondary school in southwest London in the early 90s. They bonded over being music obsessives, listening to a wide variety of genres, reading the music press, going to gigs together and eventually recording the songs they were writing. While they attended different universities, they continued to collaborate and officially formed Hot Chip in 2000. One of their early releases caught the attention of Moshi Moshi Records, who signed them to a deal. Their debut album, Coming on Strong, was released in 2004. Around this time, they developed a full band sound, adding other members, including Owen Clarke, Al Doyle, and Felix Martin. For their second album, they signed a deal with EMI Records. The Warning was eventually released in 2006. In this episode, Joe Goddard describes how Hot Chip’s sound evolved over time as they began to embrace house music and develop a harder hitting style that was influenced by disco, hip hop and grime. As they were working on the album, they connected with James Murphy and…

People in this episode

Guests: Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard

Topics covered

• music production
• band history
• album analysis
• collaboration
• sound evolution
• house music
• dance-punk revival

Keywords

• Hot Chip
• The Warning
• music evolution
• Cubase
• synthesizers
• dance music
• album release
• 2006
• collaboration
• disco

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hot Chip, Moshi Moshi Records, EMI Records, The DFA

Books & works: The Warning, Coming on Strong

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