Spell

Album: A Bath Full of Ecstasy (2019)
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  • This funky and seductive track is partly a nod to Hot Chip co-lead singer Alexis Taylor's great hero, Prince. It originated with his bandmate Joe Goddard urging Taylor to aim for a more "erotic" delivery.

    "We've been talking about doing something a bit more Prince-y for a while," Goddard told Q magazine. "In our live shows, Alexis' performances are really charged, and I wanted a couple of songs that had that charge. I just think it took a couple of years to sink in."
  • Joe Goddard and Alexis Taylor spent four days in London's Air Studios with Katy Perry's writing material for the Californian singer's Witness album. One of these songs, "Into Me You See," made it on to Perry's record. This cut and another track, "Echo," were reworked by Hot Chip for their A Bath Full of Ecstasy disc.

    Goddard told Q magazine: "We did a few days recording with her for her last record. We weren't thinking of it being for us initially, which probably helped us free ourselves of feeling embarrassed about talking about sexual deviance."

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