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 Rousseauof Paradis, Ewan Pearson, Elizabeth Whiteof 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 isthis?” 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.
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Paris in the Spring:
01 Your Only Life
02 Out of Phase [ft. Lola Kirke]
03 Wild Horses
04 Colombia
05 For a Toy
06 On a Whim [ft. Green Gartside]
07 Faiting by Numbers
08 mp3s Can Make You Cry
09 Black Lodge in the Sky