Hot Chip

Hot Chip
Hot Chip performing at the Commodore Ballroom in 2008
Background information
Origin	London, England
Genres	Indietronica alternative dance synthpop house
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Domino EMI Parlophone DFA Astralwerks Moshi Moshi
Associated acts	The 2 Bears About Group New Build Grovesnor Atomic Bomb! Band
Website	hotchip.co.uk
Members	Alexis Taylor Joe Goddard Owen Clarke Felix Martin Al Doyle Rob Smoughton Sarah Jones

Hot Chip are an English indietronica band formed in London, in 2000. They have released six studio albums: Coming on Strong (2004), The Warning (2006), Made in the Dark (2008), One Life Stand (2010), In Our Heads (2012), and Why Make Sense? (2015). The group has also been nominated for the Mercury Prize.

Early formative releases included the Mexico EP on Victory Garden Records (VG14), and the self-released San Frandisco EP. After years of self-releasing records, they signed with Moshi Moshi in 2003 and released their debut LP Coming on Strong in 2004. During this period, they were joined by Felix Martin and Al Doyle. They started working on their second album and signed a UK and US record deal with DFA Records and EMI. DFA and Astralwerks released their debut album for the first time in the US in late 2005.

In 2006, Hot Chip released their second album, The Warning. Now signed to EMI in the UK, the band gained more mainstream appeal as well as the attention of critics. The album was shortlisted for the 2006 Nationwide Mercury Prize and was Mixmag's Album of the Year 2006. This album spawned also two UK top forty singles: "Over and Over" in March 2006 and "Boy from School" in May 2006. "Over and Over" received attention for its music video, which was directed by Nima Nourizadeh, and was also named as the best single of 2006 by British music magazine NME.