Hot Chip plan 'anthemic' fourth album

Hot Chip have revealed that their next studio album will be their most gentle and laidback to date.

Singer and synthesiser player Joe Goddard told BBC 6 Music that he hoped the follow-up to last year's Made In The Dark would be made up of "end of the night anthems".

Goddard said: "We're kind of stepping things down a bit because we want to make this next album quite simple, gentle, focused.

"Just 10 or 11 tracks of really excellent pop songs that hopefully will become timeless classics."

He added: "Hopefully they'll still be tunes that you can play out in a club, but they'll be the end of the night tunes, like Womack & Womack's 'Teardrops', or 'Gypsy Woman' by Crystal Waters.

"They'll be club tunes but not the really banging ones. But making songs like that always gives you the scope to do a really banging remix, which we'll probably try and do as well."

Hot Chip play a gig at an as-yet-unnamed venue on May 5 to support homelessness charity Crisis.