Who does Hot Chip’s production?
Joe Goddard: We really don’t have a specific producer. Anyone is free at any moment to say, “This song needs a new synth part,” or, “We should rearrange this track.” A lot of the tracks were based on my laptop, so I’d do a lot of work editing and moving things around, but everyone plays, everyone makes decisions. Most of the album was made in the same way we made The Warning and Coming on Strong. A lot of stuff was started in my bedroom, and significant things were done in Al’s and Felix’s and Alexis’ recording rooms in their home studios. Most songs are started in Cubase by making rhythms with drum samples, and then on top recording live synthesizers and guitars, percussion, other drum machines and keyboard layers, and vocals–just literally sitting in front of my computer in my room. Al Doyle: There were quite a lot more sort of “long takes” in the process; where previously I think we were cutting things up a little bit shorter, you could maybe sometimes hear the loop a little bit. Th
