| One Life Stand | 
| Artist: Hot Chip
Label: EMI Music
Category: Music
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 57
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.8 x 0.2
EAN: 5099960750020
ASIN: B002W6Z7C6
Release Date: February 1, 2010
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| Tracks:
| • | Thieves In The Night | | • | Hand Me Down Your Love | | • | I Feel Better | | • | One Life Stand | | • | Brothers | | • | Slush | | • | Alley Cats | | • | We Have Love | | • | Keep Quiet | | • | Take It In |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Hot Chip's last couple of albums--2006's The Warning and 2008's Made In The Dark--brimmed with the quintet's quirky brand of Prince-like soul, down and dirty hip hop and infectious disco-funk, spawning singles like "Over and Over", "Ready For The Floor" and the wonderful "Boy From School". On One Life Stand, Alexis Taylor and co. have fought against some of their more excitable tendencies and produced an album that's a bit less wild at heart but ultimately more coherent and satisfying. As the exuberant "Thieves In The Night", plangent piano and potent drums of "Hand Me Down Your Love" and pounding title track show, Hot Chip's destination is still very much the dancefloor. There are a couple of slower, more somber tracks-–"Brothers", for example, and "Slush", a brave but successful 6/8 ballad-–but they soon get back to the party with "Alley Cats", the vibrant "We Have Love" and the euphoric finale "Take Me In". In many ways One Life Stand is the perfect electronic pop album. Its mix of colourful songwriting and intelligent lyrics combined with catchy hooks and a continued quest for a rump-shaking good time place Hot Chip at the very top of their game. --Danny McKenna
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Good-but not a bit repetitive March 5, 2010
The Spyridon (London UK)
Love the band,
good album,but wa hoping for more of a progression from the last album.
A but tedious at times...unfortunately-but there are some
excellent high lights and worth it just for that.
One life band March 3, 2010
M. Johnson (UK)
This is a good album with the variety of styles and tempos that you would expect from Hot Chip. After several listens now, I can't help but think that it's lacking a little of that Hot Chip quirkyness that the previous albums had. There are a few weaker tracks on here but that's not to say it doesn't have it's moments of greatness, the title track 'One Life Stand' is classic Hot Chip at their best.
One Life Stand March 2, 2010
Faux
The title track has production that wouldn't be out of place on I Am Robot and Towers of Asia's debut record, or Postal Service outtakes. But like these artists, Hot Chip focuses more on song arrangements and structure rather than technology and programming showmanship.
It sums up the core of what made The Warning so accessible and enjoyable right from the onset: it's like listening to early New Order records for the first time, waiting for the next one with a little bit of excited anticipation to see what's going to happen next with every new song.
Songs for Lovers February 23, 2010
J. Jenkins (Dudley Port, England)
Hot Chip's latest is so loved up you wonder if the release to coincide with Valentines Day was deliberate. Full of declarations of devotion and celebrations of the redemptive power of love, it's completely unashamed of it's amorous intentions. And, as the title suggests, we're talking long term commitment here, rather than sex that's on fire. Hot Chip have taken New Order's lament that, "It's called love, and somehow it's become unmentionable" and taken it upon themselves to do something about it.
Goddard and Taylor would seem to be more contented men, and this reflected in a more relaxed vibe in the music. Wheras previous album Made In The Dark had a slightly ADD quality, here the boys find a groove they like and run with it. The sound is considerably more restrained than MITD's electro bric-a-brac attack, built on gentle synths pretty much throughout.
This has it's pros and cons; while resulting in a more cohesive piece of work, I must confess to slightly drifting off at times when I'm listening to the whole thing through, something which was practically impossible with their previous two album's heavier keyboard riffs and ever changing mish mash of styles.
The band's magpie tendencies haven't been completely dispensed with. Slush has a sweet doo-wop feel, wheras We Have Love does offer harder edged club beats, and these prove some of the album's most arresting moments. Amongst the bang and clatter of Hand Me Down Your Love's live piano and drums is a weird, almost eurodisco vocal sample that works surprisingly well.
Towering above all this is the title track, an addictive, perfect slice of pop to equal Over and Over and Ready For The Floor that proves the band as continued pop alchemists. Mostly though, and appropriately given the subject matter, this is an album that demands and rewards a more lasting commitment.
Patchy, But At Times Astonishing February 3, 2010
Mr. H Chinaski (England)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Hot Chip were a band that took a while for me to warm to. I remember disliking their 2006 breakthrough album 'The Warning' (I've since grown to like, if not love it) and found their last album 'Made In The Dark' to be patchy at best. Now here we are in early 2010 and the Londoner's have really outstripped themselves with a fine record which is obviously heavily indebted towards New Order, but is certainly not the poorer for it. Just take one look at that (beautiful) cover, IT EVEN LOOKS LIKE A NEW ORDER RECORD!!!!!.
But to dismiss this band as mere copyist's is a narrow-sighted and presumptuous view point as they have a lot to offer in their own right. Opener 'Thieves In The Night' is a six minute downtempo start. As noted by Andrew Mueller in his Uncut magazine review, the track holds many similarities to 'Grey To Fade' by the Steve Strange-led New Romantic's Visage, Mueller states that the similarities cannot be coincidence and I must concur. It does seem like a wink-and-a-nod towards the music of the past that has obviously influenced Alexis Taylor and co, but as like the New Order influences, it always seems playful and mischivous rather than a ripp off. track 2 'Hand Me Down Your Love' really explodes out of the speakers with a dense beat and a driving piano riff but just as you sense the song is about to implode within itself, the whole peice takes a back step and a beautiful string arrangement seems to just bloom out of nowhere, it is easily the standout track and is absolutely stunning. Single 'One Life Stand' is also a highlight with Taylor's beautifully cold vocals being punctuated by stabbing keyboards and thunderous beats.
The record is populated with slow-paced, downtempo disco numbers which vary in their reward. 'Brothers' is a rudimentry Hot Chip song which feels a little stilted but is admittedly very heartfelt. 'Slush' is a better example where the song builds slowly but steadily until it reaches a beautiful climax which incorpates pianos, horns and strings. The results are mixed throughout with 'Alley Cats' being a dense and sombre moodpeice which does'nt reach it's potential and 'Keep Quiet' not really going anywhere of interest. 'We Have Love' is by far the most dance-orientated song, which really livens the whole record up. It sounds like a club classic in the making with a repetitive vocal sample played over a multi-layered old school dance track, it is very reminiscent of 'Technique' era New Order (high praise indeed).
Overall I still feel Hot Chip are searching for their masterpeice, but they are getting closer with each release. One day they will create an album that sits easily alongside 'Power, Corruption & Lies', 'Violater' and 'Trans-Europe Express', till then this superb album will certainly suffice.
And, add 'Hand Me Down My Love' to 'Over And Over' and 'Ready For The Floor' as 10/10 rated classics. My God, this band will have one hell of a Best Of!!!.
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