Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor Returns With New Album Paris In The Spring

Since 2008, Alexis Taylor has managed a steady solo career outside his work in the electro-pop outfit Hot Chip. Now Taylor’s back with Paris in the Spring, his seventh album under his own name. The record drops March 13 via Night Time Stories. Check out the artwork—and watch Taylor, Lola Kirke, and a bunch of mannequins perform in the music video for lead single “Out of Phase”—below.

Paris includes contributions from the Avalanches, Étienne de Crécy, Pierre Rousseau of Paradis, Ewan Pearson, Elizabeth White of Pale Blue, and Green Gartside of Scritti Politti. Fittingly, Taylor recorded most of the album at Nicolas Godin’s studio in Paris.

In a statement, he says the project is ultimately about “freedom—from constraints, from preconceptions, and from genre.” “Sometimes an audience wants to be told, what is this?” he added. “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?”

Read our review of Taylor’s 2021 album Silence.