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    15 questions with… HOT CHIP

    Oct 07, 2020 4 minutes

    Yes it really is a full 20 years since Hot Chip first formed with founder members Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard. After a few EPs the duo were joined by current regulars Felix Martin, Al Doyle, and Owen Clarke to launch themselves into something of a synth and quirky pop stratosphere. Their debut album came out in 2004, called Coming on Strong, but it was the band’s follow up, 2006’s The Warning that bothered the charts with the singles Boy from School and Over and Over, going on to be nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. Since then they’ve released five further albums including the Grammy-nominated Made in the Dark (2008) and 2019’s critically-aclaimed A Bath Full of Ecstasy

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