Clockenflap cheat sheet: Alexis Taylor
Does Vocals, synth, music-and-songwriting for Mercury Prize-shortlisted electro-pop phenom Hot Chip. Will trade in the mic for a DJ-set at Clockenflap.
From London, England.
Attended Elliott School in Putney, where he met second lead Hot Chipper Joe Goddard and formed the band in 2000. Other musically gifted alums include dubstar artist Burial (William Bevan) and Four Tet (Kieran Hebden).
You care because Time Out New York gave his first solo move Rubbed Out a four-star review.
More proof Hot Chip’s latest release is the two-CD A Bugged Out Mix by Hot Chip (New State Recordings). Check it out.
Consolations of philosophy “Ironically” uses the alias of Sophocles in liner notes, while Goddard goes by Ulysses.
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