Ahead of the release of their brand-new best of album, Joy In Repetition, Alexis Taylor and Owen Clarke from Hot Chip admit that the record’s track list may ‘confound’ people, revealing that it excludes most of the band’s first album which they call ‘lyrically juvenile.’
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Alexis Taylor – AT
Owen Clarke – OC
Dan O’Connell – DOC
DOC: “I’ve got to start with this. It feels like I’m starting on a negative, and I don’t want to start on a negative, but if you want to start on a negative, let’s call this a negative. I’m going through the track list, and honestly, I can’t believe ‘Look After Me’ hasn’t made that track list. It must have been hard to whittle these songs down to a greatest hits?”
AT: “Yeah, it was quite hard to pick. You know, it’s nice to have that selection of songs. It’s nice to feel like there’s some that you’re kind of having to choose between, rather than just scraping together enough to fit on there. I’ve turned it into a negative again.”
OC: “Well, yeah. I suppose it’s going to, not disappoint, confound. It’s going to confound some people that certain songs aren’t on there.”
DOC: “Yeah. Was there point scoring? Is that helpful in this scenario? I’ve never had to put together a greatest hits, so I couldn’t know.”
AT: “There wasn’t point scoring. I think Joe [Goddard] maybe vetoed stuff from the first album, finding it a bit sort of juvenile lyrically.”
DOC: “Were there any fallings out?”
AT: “It was fine, actually. It was really without any major incident.”
