“Boy From School”
Hot Chip is a band from London made up of Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard, Al Doyle, Owen Clarke, and Felix Martin. Their second album, The Warning, came out in 2006. It was nominated for a Mercury Prize, and named one of the best albums of the year by NME and Pitchfork. And later, NME would include it in their list of best albums of all time. For this episode, I talked to them about one of the songs from The Warning called “Boy From School.” You might have heard it in the second season of the show Beef on Netflix—the band’s also in the show—or you might have heard it on The Simpsons. You could have also heard the song in my car all the time in 2006. So I was very excited to talk to Alexis and Joe from Hot Chip about how “Boy from School” was made.
You can buy or stream “Boy From School” here.
Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
Elliott School
Basement Jaxx
Casio MT-70 keyboard
Vox Electric Piano
Cubase and the Roland TR-909
“Deceptacon” by Le Tigre (+ The DFA remix)
James Murphy, Tim Goldsworthy, and The DFA
“Is It All Over My Face?” by Loose Joints
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
