The Hot Chip frontman on a Factory Records exhibition, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and his favourite vegan ramen
Born in 1980, Alexis Taylor is the lead vocalist and keyboardist/guitarist of synthpop band Hot Chip. He formed the group with Joe Goddard while at school in Putney, London; he went on to study English at Cambridge. Hot Chip’s debut album was released in 2004 and its follow-up, The Warning, was shortlisted for the Mercury prize; their most recent is 2019’s critically acclaimed A Bath Full of Ecstasy. Taylor’s sixth solo album, Silence, is released on AWAL on 17 September; the album launch will be at the Rio Cinema, London, on 16 September. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.