One of the strengths of Hot Chip is the way they encourage individual band members to plough their own musical furrows. The approach has yielded six solo albums for Alexis Taylor, the singer free to explore musical directions in which his band have not yet travelled. For his latest long player, Taylor relocated to Paris – presumably in the spring – alighting at the studio of a good friend, Air’s Nicolas Godin.
While Alexis has an instantly recognisable voice, the music on Paris in the Spring paints a very different picture to the club-based yearnings and dancefloor celebrations of his band, which appear only intermittently. Now the layers are peeled away, the listener given an unexpectedly searching portrait of Taylor’s soul.

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