Alexis Taylor - Hot Chip man announces his second solo album!

Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor announces new solo album 'Await Barbarians'!!!

Alexis Taylor's announces his second solo album and first for Domino, 'Await Barbarians' which will be out on June 10th. Possessing the same immediacy as his music with Hot Chip and the adventurousness of his work with About Group. There is a special intimacy to the lyrics of Alexis Taylor's Await Barbarians, a simplicity and candour in his expression of emotion, though the moments of honesty are matched with a sense of humour, playfulness and fun.

 
Playing and recording all the instruments himself apart from strings, Taylor also presents a more reflective side of his writing and singing, which comes into focus in a more confident and defined manner than before. With its brushed cymbal led quiet and solitude, and its startlingly direct recording approach. The album recalls in places the work of such English luminaries as Mark Hollis and Robert Wyatt. Recalling such recordings is one thing, but the record doesn't sound especially like those. 'Await Barbarians' sound World is entirely Taylor's own at times claustrophobic,

Synth led and dry, and at others spacious, warm and homely. It always places Taylor's unique and recognizable vocals up front in the mix, rarely adorned by audible effects. 'Await Barbarians' is a album whose warm tones draw you in, whose sequencing asks of the listener an uninterrupted session of close listening, and whose sound world reminds us of the pleasures of all that is quiet in music. It is rich in deep insight and profound feeling, a truly significant album by one of the country's most continually arresting musicians.

'Await Barbarians' will be available on CD, standard LP and Digital. Copies of the LP purchased throughDom Mart or indie retailers will include a bonus 7' featuring the tracks 'I Hope' which is a Bobby Charles cover, b/w 'Song of Long'. 

 
'Await Barbarians' tracklisting Below: 
01 Lazy Bones 
02 From the halfway Line 
03 Without a Crutch (Part 2) 
04 Immune System 
05 Dolly and Porter 
06 Closer to the Elderly 
07 Elvis has left the Building 
08 Piano Ducks 
09 New Hours 
10 Where would I Be? 
11 Am I not a Soldier? 
12 Without a Crutch (Part 1)

Check Out! the lyric Video for 'Elvis has left the Building' Below...