One Life Stand

Hot Chip | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 9, 2010)
• Original Release Date: February 9, 2010
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Astralwerks
• ASIN: B002W6Z7C6
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #66,164 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Limited deluxe CD/DVD edition includes bonus DVD. 2010 album from one of the most exuberantly inventive and acclaimed bands around today. Hot Chip have built a devoted fanbase with their soulfully eclectic records and incendiary live shows. Hotly-anticipated by fans and media alike, One Life Stand is the band's most boldly accomplished record yet, at once offbeat and anthemic, cerebral and danceable. Features the single 'One Life Stand'. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hot Chip - One Life Stand, February 9, 2010

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Andrew Vice (Plano, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Life Stand (Audio CD)

I started listening to Hot Chip shortly after The Warning came out, in 2006, and I fell in love with the band's knack for writing catchy, melodic, and danceable tunes. The album had a brilliant balance of hard and fast dance tracks and slower, smoother ballads and pop songs. When Made in the Dark came out in early 2008, I was disappointed with the direction the band had taken, eschewing their melodic inklings for a more dance-oriented album, filling in the gaps with some meager attempts at '70s R&B and soul. Alas, the dance tunes lacked the punch of brilliant songs like "Over and Over," and I sort of put Hot Chip on the proverbial shelf, somewhat forgetting about them, until of course I read about the impending release of One Life Stand.

Like clockwork, Hot Chip are set to release another album in their two year cycle, and One Life Stand can certainly serve as fitting company to the excellent The Warning. It seems that this time around, Hot Chip have again learned how to love melody, and have worked it in throughout the record, creating captivating hooks and little ear worms that you'll have stuck in your head for weeks, if not months. The chillout bridge and triumphant harmonized chorus of the title track soars well above and beyond Made in the Dark, and it's at this point that it becomes obvious that Hot Chip have done it again. The songs are more tightly composed and the styles more varied on this effort, and I for one am very pleased with the restraint shown by the band on this go. I am once again in the thrall of Hot Chip, and looking forward to their next album in February of 2012. Other album highlight include the brilliant closer, "Take It In" and the beautiful fraternal-love-touting "Brothers." Another great record for 2010. Damn, this is a good year.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Still one Hot Chip!, February 9, 2010

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Nse Ette (Lagos, Nigeria) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One Life Stand (Audio CD)

"One Life Stand" is UK dance quintet Hot Chip's 4th album and it is filled with swirling synths, catchy melodies, and angelic falsettos. Opening cut "Thieves in the Night" is deliriously euphoric, while "Hand Me Down Your Love" sets sweeping strings to a Motown-style beat. Title track "One Life Stand" is dark & chiming at the same time, while "Alley Cats" and the floaty Pet Shop boys-style "Take It In" are more sombre.

The bouncy "We Have Love" was apparently inspired by Donna Summer's "I Feel Love", while the pulsing "Brothers" (a paean to looking out for each other) starts off ballad-like. Of the upbeat numbers, "I Feel Better" is the stand-out, trance-like and hypnotic with icy synth-strings and bouncy beat perfectly offsetting the warbled falsetto. My favourite.

The ballads are a revelation themselves; "Keep Quiet" and especially the Doo Wop-style piano ballad "Slush" with densely layered harmonies. Clever and beautiful!

5.0 out of 5 stars One Life Stand, August 6, 2011

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Frank Beauchamp - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Life Stand (Audio CD)

Key tracks would definitely be "I Feel Better", "One Life Stand", "We Have Love", and "Keep Quiet. I love the emotional honesty and haunting vibe from the drone of the beats and instrumentation. The strings in "Keep Quiet" leave a reminiscent tone of the strings in the first Mario Game for Nintendo 64. "Take It In" leaves a dark feeling to come as the outro for the album, with a tone that makes me think of the angst one is filled with when listening to Nine Inch Nails albums, but with a much more soothing voice and less prominence on a distorted or hyped vocal. Smooth listening.

I've listened to "One Life Stand" while driving on the highway downtown with a friend. It was my first time hearing it, though I had already heard "I Feel Better" and honestly say the whole work is crafted well...every time I hear another one of their songs I just want to listen to more.

The song about alley cats is cool too.