Hot Chip is hard at work on the follow-up to 2006's critically acclaimed The Warning. Thanks to NME for the quotes and details.

Joe Goddard told NME the band recorded six songs in January as a live band and then he and Alexis Taylor did six or seven others. The next step is putting those all together, although Goddard says he's "not sure how that's going to work."

So what do those live takes sound like? Pretty different, according to JG.

"They won't have all the stuff from the last two records, such as the tiny bits of percussions and loops because they're live takes. So, they're going to be pretty different, more raw and more distorted and louder," Goddard said.

I smell the dudes switching from the minimal Kompakt-isms to some more Paris-friendly stadium electronics.

But fear not, Hot Chip is still Hot Chip:

"The other songs that me and Alexis have been making on my computer have the same kind of sound, which is that Hot Chip sound, if you can call it that. If anything they're a bit more frenetic and tribal and crazy. There are also some quiet, folky songs.

The band is shooting for a release sometime later in the year.