Hot Chip song inspired by Susan Boyle

Hot Chip have revealed that they were inspired to write a song after seeing Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent.

Band member Joe Goddard claimed that he penned the track 'Keep Quiet' immediately after seeing Boyle perform 'I Dreamed A Dream' on the ITV1 show.

"I'd never seen it before and I found it quite incredible," he told Billboard. "Just listening to that made me want to write a song. I sent the track to Alexis [Taylor] and he quickly wrote the words and sent it back."

Goddard revealed that the group spent too long working on their new album One Life Stand, released on February 8, and had to abandon a lot of the material.

"We tried to have a simplicity to this record. The most difficult song was 'Hand Me Down Your Love'. It was just a matter of months and months of adding synthesizers, adding drum parts," he said.

"There were sections where we thought were unnecessary, so we removed it. It got to something like 160 tracks or pieces of music. I think because we had more time to make this record, we tried things out differently.

"The time was a little bit unhelpful. In the end, we didn't use a lot of parts we recorded."

Hot Chip release lead single 'One Life Stand' on February 1.