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Hot Chip co-leader Alexis Taylor has already released five solo albums. You probably haven't heard all of them. It's fine. There's a lot of music out there. But you should absolutely not neglect Taylor's upcoming solo LP Paris In The Spring, which comes out next week. I just listened for the first time, and it's really, really good. Honestly, I shouldn't be surprised, since Taylor has made so much great music for so long, but I was. If you like downcast sad-boy disco, then this album is a must.
On Paris In The Spring, Alexis Taylor collaborates with people like Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside and Air’s Nicolas Godin. We've already posted "Out Of Phase," with Lola Kirke, and "For A Toy," with Pale Blue's Elizabeth Wight. Today, Taylor shares the gorgeous new track "I Can Feel Your Love." The Avalanches produced it, with some additional production from Oli Bayston and Étienne de Crécy. Here's what Taylor says about the track:
Sometimes, you can feel another’s love — you can sense it. It can be powerful even if not expressed in words. Sometimes, love can be like being in awe of something, or someone — and this is my take on devotional music. It’s about that dialogue with the impossible, the out of reach, the thing or person that is beyond you; a spiritual connection. The music that the Avalanches sent — which was made up of gospel samples — really reached me, so it figured that my lyrics touch upon these themes. It also had this disco vibe that was really uplifting. It’s a euphoric-sounding song, I think. Additional tracking of the song’s brand new chorus idea, which I had on the streets of Paris, was done with the wonderful Étienne de Crécy at his studio.
Former Horrors frontman Tom Furse directed the song's animated video. In the clip Alexis Taylor encounters a Tasmanian tiger, miraculously back from extinction, and the two of them have an adventure together. Here's Taylor again:
The Thylacine (or Tasmanian Tiger) is an animal I have always loved and been fascinated by. The cruel hunting of the species by humans to the point of extinction is one of the saddest details surrounding the animal. I wanted to talk about a connection that is beyond words and language, so I suggested to Tom that the connection could be shown between this animal, that we in fact cannot directly communicate with, and a human. It’s a love story about connection and something sublime, or beyond ourselves.
Check it out below.
Paris In The Spring is out 3/13 on Night Time Stories.
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