CHICAGO
Alexis Taylor
An evening of ambient sound + light from the Hot Chip co-founder
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Epiphany Center for the Arts
7pm (doors) 8pm (performance)
All ages
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Reflections presents a night with Alexis Taylor, singer and co-founder of beloved UK band Hot Chip. He’ll share an intimate set of songcraft and electronic atmospheres, spotlighting his love for adventurous sound and pure emotion.
Expect a night of deep listening and playful sonic experimentation. We’ll pair Taylor’s performance with a projection-mapped light show, transforming this historic Chicago church — and ourselves — in a state of reverential beauty.
Alexis Taylor
ALEXIS TAYLOR is one of the UK’s most distinctive singer-songwriters. Since co-founding Hot Chip in 2000, Taylor has shaped their particular blend of dance floor euphoria and textured melancholia.
Yet with each release outside of pop giants Hot Chip, he has moved effortlessly between intimate recital music (2016’s Piano), improvised music with About Group, avant-electronica (2018’s Beautiful Thing) and chamber pop (2021’s Silence). He continues to be as relevant as ever, having just celebrated 25 years with Hot Chip. As well as significant milestones, Taylor remains a prolific producer, remixer and collaborator, appearing on key releases this year from HAAi and Superpitcher, remixing Paul Weller and linking up with French touch pioneer Fred Falke & Zen Freeman (Ampersounds). A singular voice, he’s built a substantial body of solo work over the years. But his seventh release, Paris In The Spring, feels like his magnum opus.
It’s Taylor’s most revealing album yet, peeling back the layers of his psyche to reveal sentiments both specific and universal. The subject matter doesn’t shy away from hard-hitting themes but musically, it’s carefree, brightly-lit and contemporary, drawing on leftfield pop, country, elegant disco-house and Vangelis-inspired soundscapes. Testament to his skill as a curator, he’s called on some impressive personnel to help create its effervescent sound world: Air’s Nicolas Godin, The Avalanches, Lola Kirke, and Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside, to name but a few. In this world, the confessional style of country greats is charged by the pop melodicism of Paul McCartney, the futuristic funk of Sly and the Family Stone and, as Taylor puts it, “synthesisers left out in the rain.” It’s where British Americana meets Gallic flair, somewhere on Mars. Is it his cosmic cowboy record? “Well,” he smiles, “the working title was Cocaine, Wild Horses and Real Love.”
Ultimately, this is an album about freedom. From constraints, from preconceptions, from genre. Taylor has always been an open book in terms of his influences but one can’t help but think of Arthur Russell, sequestered away in a studio among his collaborators, recording during all-night sessions under the full moon, creatively and unanimously autonomous. Like Russell, Taylor experiments with all different musical styles – country, folk, disco – and has weaved it together here into something unique. “Sometimes an audience wants to be told, what is this?” says Taylor. “And I’m refusing to do that. You can find great things in music when you open up to real listening. No one needs to be told ‘what something is,’ otherwise why would we be making something so straightforward? Be ready to be surprised, to find something new in music, and let the music resonate with you.”
Epiphany Center for the Arts
This evening’s venue is a former Episcopal church located in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood. Constructed in 1885, designed by architects Edward Burling and Francis Whitehouse it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The building is an ADA accessible space.
201 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60607
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