Hot Chip 'interested' by album response

Hot Chip's Al Doyle has admitted that he has been interested by the response to the group's last album One Life Stand.

The guitarist told The Quietus that he had predicted that some fans would take a longer time to get into the record than the band's previous work.

Doyle said: "It's been interesting to see the response to the record. There was a bunch of people who liked it straight away and a lot of people who really hated it.

"And then following those responses it's been a case of people giving listening to it and giving it a bit more of a chance and then coming round to it, which I thought might happen."

He added: "I think that some of it was quite light and very overtly poppy, maybe in a way that some of the previous records haven't been.

"There's less kind of in-your-face style songs like 'Shake A Fist' from the previous record. It's one of those albums you can put on in a domestic situation.

"It sounds like a put down but it's more like washing up music. And some of my favourite records are the ones I play when I do things round the house."

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