New Build

New Build
OriginLondon, UK
GenresSynthpop, alternative dance, electronic
Years active2011–present
LabelsLanark Recordings
Sunday Best Recordings
Spinoff ofHot Chip
MembersAl Doyle
Felix Martin
Tom Hopkins
Joy Leah Joseph
Past membersPat Mahoney
Janine Rostron
Owen Clarke
Sarah Jones
Mark Ralph
Rupert Clervaux
Charlie Michael
Ben Ubly

New Build is a British electronic music band based in London. The band consists of Hot Chip members Al Doyle, Felix Martin plus composer Tom Hopkins. Their first album Yesterday Was Lived and Lost was released in the UK on 5 March 2012 (and in the United States on 3 April 2012).[1]

Their second album Pour It On was released by Sunday Best Recordings, worldwide on 20 October 2014. The first single "The Sunlight" was premiered by Pitchfork on 21 August. Both New Build albums have been mixed and finished at Club Ralph, the studio of Mark Ralph (Clean Bandit, Franz Ferdinand, Hot Chip) in north London, and Pour It On was mastered by Mike Marsh at the Exchange.

Early on New Build received national radio play on the BBC by DJs including Mary Anne Hobbes, Nick Grimshaw, Rob Da Bank and Peter Serafinowicz,[2] featured in worldwide publications such as Rolling Stone magazine,[3] Mixmag[4] and The Guardian[5] and prior to releasing their first album released two singles on their own label Lanark Recordings, the first entitled "Misery Loves Company", the second "Do You Not Feel Loved?"....[6]

  1. ^ "CMU". CMU. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  2. ^ "BBC Radio". BBC Radio 6 Playlist. BBC. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  3. ^ Lupi, Michele (14 November 2011). "LCD Soundsystem + Hot Chip = New Build". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  4. ^ Murray, Robin (14 November 2011). "Mixmag". Mixmag. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  5. ^ "The Guardian Guide". The Guardian. 26 November 2011.
  6. ^ "Brooklyn Vegan". members of Hot Chip (and LCD Soundsystem) formed New Build --- 12" out now, NYC show going on sale soon. Brooklyn Vegan. Retrieved 19 January 2012.