Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor Announces New Solo Album 'Paris In The Spring' Feat Air, Avalanches & More
Wednesday, 14 January 2026
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Alexandra Cabral
Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor has announced a new solo album.
'Paris In The Spring' marks his seventh record under his own name and will arrive through Night Time Stories on March 13, following 2021's 'Silence' and the subsequent 2022 expanded deluxe edition.
Primarily recorded at Nicholas Godin of Air's studio in Paris, the album is about freedom, "from constraints, from preconceptions, and from genre," according to his press release. It features contributions from Godin, The Avalanches, Étienne de Crécy, Lola Kirke, Pierre Rousseau of Paradis, Ewan Pearson, Elizabeth Wight of Pale Blue, Oli Bayston, and Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside.
"Sometimes an audience wants to be told, what is this?" Taylor said of the project. "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."
As a preview, Taylor has shared the first single, Out Of Phase, a synthy, dance-pop track featuring Kirke and Bayston, inspired by David Lynch and referencing two of the late director's films. Head below to view the accompanying video, directed by Will Kindrick. Taylor added:
"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."
Last September, Hot Chip released their first Best Of album, 'Joy In Repetition', featuring the group's biggest songs from across their discography, including Ready For The Floor, I Feel Better, and Over and Over.
'Paris In The Spring' tracklist:
1. Your Only Life
2. I Can Feel Your Love
3. Out Of Phase (feat. Lola Kirke)
4. Wild Horses
5. Colombia
6. For A Toy
7. On A Whim (feat. Green Gartside)
8. Fainting By Numbers
9. mp3s Can Make You Cry
10. Black Lodge In The Sky
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