Listen: Hot Chip's Alex Taylor Announces New Album and Shares 'I'm Ready'

Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor has announced the followup to 2014's Await Barbarians.

The announcement is accompanied by the release of the album's lead single, 'I'm Ready.'

Taylor explained the motivations behind the new record in a statement:

"I had always wanted to make a loose and to some extent unplanned piano record - partly inspired by an un-made but suggested Alex Chilton solo piano LP that a friend of mine told me about 15 years ago or so. I began one a few years back which then morphed into the second About Group LP - but the idea stayed in the back of my mind all the while.

“The idea with this record was to choose songs of my own and others' that were personal to me and to document live performances which were intimate and unadorned. I wanted to reduce everything to the barest elements, record a great piano well and do as little as possible to the recordings EQ or effects-wise. The mood created on the record is pretty different from that on other records I have been involved with. It feels like a special place to be able to go to."

Piano is out June 10 via Moshi Moshi, stream the lead single below.