Hot Chip Planning 'Gentle' New Album

Hot Chip are to mellow for their new album, as they plan to record more ambient songs.

Although not out until early 2010, the group are already working on the follow-up to Made In The Dark.

Frontman Joe Goddard tells BBC 6 Music: "We're kind of stepping things down a bit because we want to make this next album quite simple, gentle, focussed; just 10 or 11 tracks of really excellent pop songs that hopefully will become timeless classics."

"Hopefully they'll still be tunes that you can play out in a club, but they'll be the end of the night tunes."

"They'll be club tunes but not the really banging ones," Goddard added.