Hot Chip

With their witty, affecting songwriting and Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard's immediately recognizable vocals, Hot Chip are indie dance innovators. On 2006's Mercury Prize-nominated The Warning, the band evoked the cleverness of Talking Heads and the poignancy of the Pet Shop Boys. Hot Chip's music soon broadened and deepened, encompassing the tender musings on commitment of 2010's One Life Stand and the anything-goes mashups of 2015's Why Make Sense? With a handful of hit singles to their name (including the Grammy-nominated "Ready for the Floor" from 2008's Made in the Dark), ...