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Released
  
13 October 2008

Artist
  
Alexis Taylor

Producer
  
Alexis Taylor

Genres
  
Neo soul, Folktronica

Length
  
39:56

Release date
  
13 October 2008

Label
  
Treader

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Recorded
  
Alexis Taylor's Home, 2008

Similar
  
Await Barbarians, Coming on Strong, The Warning, Made in the Dark, One Life Stand

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Rubbed Out is the first solo album by the leader of British indie electronic band Hot Chip, Alexis Taylor. It was released on October 13, 2008 in the UK. According to Taylor, he "just made it there wasn't any thinking behind it really." The album was "tailored in places, planes, hotel rooms and at home."

Contents

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Critical reception

The reception to the album was generally favourable. Pitchfork described the album as "a refreshingly simple collection of tender ballads and quirky set pieces" while "Taylor's voice hovers over rich keyboard smears or bounces lightly over tripping guitars, accented with little bells and whistles." Although, it was noted that the album tended to wander through its "confused final third." Luke Lewis, a blogger for NME, said Taylor's cover of Paul McCartney's "Coming Up" enabled "the simple beauty of the chorus... to breathe more freely," while "Taylor's voice is perfectly capable of raising goosebumps even without the sleek digital backdrop [of Hot Chip]."

Track listing

  1. "Fireworks" – 1:47
  2. "Plastic Man" – 2:34
  3. "Coming Up" – 2:36
  4. "Baby" – 3:17
  5. "Girl" – 3:39
  6. "I Thought This Was Ours" – 5:06
  7. "I'm Not a Robber" – 3:38
  8. "Collector's Item" – 2:04
  9. "What Good is Love?" – 5:12
  10. "Musical Food" – 3:05
  11. "O Lord" – 0:31
  12. "I Love My Home" – 1:39
  13. "I'm Juan" – 1:21
  14. "Ruffles" – 3:44
  15. "The Big Drums of Chwodes" – 2:35

All tracks written by Alexis Taylor with the exception of "Coming Up."

Personnel

  • Alexis Taylor – vocals, instrumentation, mixing and production (drums and glockenspiel mixed and produced by Rupert Clervaux on tracks 4, 5, and 6)
  • Rupert Clervaux – drums, glockenspiel on tracks 4, 5, and 6
  • Frauke Stegmann - artwork

    • Songs

    1Fireworks1:47
    2Plastic Man2:34
    3Coming Up2:36

    References

    Rubbed Out Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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