You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishi Kesh Hirway.

I'm going to be on tour for the next few weeks, and all the dates are at songexploder.net slash live.

I'm going to be playing songs from my new album in the last hour of light with a full band, and I'm going to be talking about the making of my album with a special guest moderator in each city. I get to be the interviewee instead of the interviewer. So I'm going to be joined by Jason Mansuchus, Samin Nosrat, Alison Russell, Joshua Molina, Ken Jennings and John Roderick, Minjin Lee, and Adam Scott.

It's a really personal album, and I hope you can make it out to one of the shows.

You can get tickets and more info at songexploder.net slash live.

Hotchip is a band from London made up of Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard, Al Doyle, Owen Clark, and Felix Martin.

Their second album, The Warning, came out in 2006.

It was nominated for a Mercury Prize and named one of the best albums of the year by Enemy and Pitchfork,

and later, Enemy would include it in their list of best albums of all time.

For this episode, I talked to them about one of the songs from The Warning called Boy from

School. You might have heard it in the second season of the show Beef on Netflix, the band's

also in the show, or you might have heard it on The Simpsons. You could have also heard the

song in my car all the time in 2006. So I was very excited to talk to Alexis and Joe from Hotchip about how a boy from school was made.

We tried, but we didn't come along.

We tried, but we don't belong

My name is Alexis Taylor

And my name is Joe Goddard

We became friends at school

We were like 11 and 12 years old, I think. We grew up playing football and talking about

bands that we'd read about in the NME and went to loads of gigs together, hundreds of gigs.

We all used to congregate at Joe's house, usually on a Friday after playing football after school.

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