Harmonics - the new album from Hot Chip founding member Joe Goddard - is a record rooted in warmth, instinct and empathy. Across 14 tracks of left-of-centre dance music - touching on UK garage, house, hip-hop, pop, and disco - Goddard opens the floor for a number of collaborators. The voice of Ibibio Sound Machine's Eno Williams rides the afro-house groove of 'Progress', while starry-eyed boom-bap track 'When Love's Out of Fashion' features UK rapper Oranje. Former Wild Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe lends his uniquely expressive vocal to the low-slung house of 'Summon', and Joe's Hot Chip bandmates Alexis Taylor and Al Doyle both appear on the gleaming half-step ballad 'Heal Your Mind'. Other guests on Harmonics include Tom McFarland of the London dance-pop group Jungle, Bronx-raised singer Fiorious (on recent single "New World (Flow)"), Guinean vocalist Falle Nioke, and UK jazz musician Alabaster DePlume.