Rubbed Out is the first solo album by the leader of British indie electronic band Hot Chip

Hot Chip

Hot Chip are an English electronic indie band. They have released four studio albums—Coming on Strong, The Warning, Made in the Dark and One Life Stand.-Formation:...

, Alexis Taylor. It was released on October 13, 2008 in the UK. According to Taylor, he "just made it there wasn't any thinking behind it really." The album was "tailored in places, planes, hotel rooms and at home."

Critical reception

The reception to the album was generally favourable. Pitchfork described the album as "a refreshingly simple collection of tender ballads and quirky set pieces" while "Taylor's voice hovers over rich keyboard smears or bounces lightly over tripping guitars, accented with little bells and whistles." Although, it was noted that the album tended to wander through its "confused final third." Luke Lewis, a blogger for NME

NME

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, said Taylor's cover of Paul McCartney's "Coming Up" enabled "the simple beauty of the chorus... to breathe more freely," while "Taylor's voice is perfectly capable of raising goosebumps even without the sleek digital backdrop [of Hot Chip]."

Track listing

1. "Fireworks" – 1:47
2. "Plastic Man" – 2:34
3. "Coming Up" – 2:36
4. "Baby" – 3:17
5. "Girl" – 3:39
6. "I Thought This Was Ours" – 5:06
7. "I'm Not a Robber" – 3:38
8. "Collector's Item" – 2:04
9. "What Good is Love?" – 5:12
10. "Musical Food" – 3:05
11. "O Lord" – 0:31
12. "I Love My Home" – 1:39
13. "I'm Juan" – 1:21
14. "Ruffles" – 3:44
15. "The Big Drums of Chwodes" – 2:35

All tracks written by Alexis Taylor with the exception of "Coming Up."

Personnel

• Alexis Taylor – vocals, instrumentation, mixing and production (drums and glockenspiel mixed and produced by Rupert Clervaux on tracks 4, 5, and 6)
• Rupert Clervaux – drums, glockenspiel on tracks 4, 5, and 6
• Frauke Stegmann - artwork

Song notes

• "Coming Up" is a cover of a Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
  
   song that originally appeared on 1980's McCartney II
  McCartney II
  McCartney II is the third album by Paul McCartney, and the first since the formation of Wings in 1971. It was released in 1980, a year before the band's dissolution and while their future lay in limbo...
  
  , Paul McCartney's third solo effort.