Hot Chip are the latest band to join the Late Night Tales series, with their 19-track mixtape set to be released on October 2. In the lead up to the album drop, they’ve shared a cover of ‘Candy Says’, the 11^th track on the album – across social media, the band talked about their special memories of this song. Hot Chip will also contribute three exclusive songs to their mix. Listen to their cover here.

In addition to their new material, Hot Chip’s mix includes Rhythm & Sound, Fever Ray and Nils Frahm. The full tracklist is below.

Late Night Tales is a series of artist curated compilation albums, whose contributors include Arctic Monkeys’ Matt Helders, Fatboy Slim and Belle and Sebastian. For the most part, the albums include a cover by the curating artists, alongside a playlist of ‘late night’ songs. Often there is also a ‘story’ or a reading performed by a famous performer – Hot Chip have chosen an excerpt from Finnegans Wake. Lead singer, Alexis Taylor, spoke in a press release about the different ways the project might be interpreted.

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We are very excited to share that we will be releasing a compilation with @latenighttalesofficial on the 2nd of October. It will include 3 new Hot Chip songs, an exclusive cover of The Velvet Underground’s ‘Candy Says’, and some of our favourite pieces of music for late night listening, new and old… You can preorder the compilation and stream ‘Candy Says’ right now! Link in Bio ‘Candy Says’ is a favourite of ours, and is a song that Joe and myself used to perform at school concerts when Hot Chip was first beginning in the late ‘90s. It was nice to return to it now and make a new version of the song, paying tribute to that wonderful original Velvet Underground record. Alexis

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According to Taylor, the band approached Late Night Tales in different ways: “I think we all had slightly different understandings of what a Late Night Tales compilation might consist of; varying interpretations of the brief.”  He detailed what their different understandings were:

“For some the mix might be what you’d want to listen to as your late night continues, after a night out. For others maybe it suggested a selection of music for listening to as you drift off to sleep; then again it could just be music evocative of night time, or concerned with its traditionally “darker” moods.”

“We’ve put together a mix of music which ties all of these ideas together and represents some of our favourite music new and old, some of it directly influential on Hot Chip and some of it music we have discovered and loved, been surprised by and connected to. There are three new songs of ours which we’re really proud of, and which I think connect naturally with the nocturnal world the compilation speaks of, and a cover of “Candy Says” which is one of the first songs the very early version of Hot Chip played when we were still at school.”

Late Night Tales also released a sample of the Hot Chip album, which you can watch now. The full mix will be released on October 2.

1. Christina Vantzou – ‘At Dawn’
2. Hot Chip – ‘Nothing’s Changed’
3. Rhythm & Sound – ‘King In My Empire’ [ft. Cornell Campbell]
4. Pale Blue – ‘Have You Passed Through This Night’
5. Suzanne Kraft – ‘Femme Cosmic’
6. Fever Ray – ‘To The Moon And Back’
7. PlanningToRock – ‘Much to Touch’
8. Charlotte Adigery – ‘1,618’
9. Mike Salta – ‘Hey Moloko’
10. Matthew Bourne – ‘Somewhere I Have Never Travelled’
11. Hot Chip – ‘Candy Says’ (Velvet Underground cover version)
12. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – ‘Who I Am & Why I Am Where’
13. About Group – ‘The Long Miles’
14. Beatrice Dillon – ‘Workaround Two’
15. Hot Chip – ‘Worlds Within Worlds’
16. Daniel Blumberg – ‘The Bomb’
17. Nils Frahm – ‘Ode’
18. Hot Chip – ‘None Of These Things’
19. Neil Taylor – ‘Finnegans Wake’ excerpt