Hot Chip - One Life Stand (2010)

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Hot Chip - One Life Stand (2010)

The new Hot Chip album, One Life Stand, is out February 9 via Astralwerks in North America (February 8 in the UK courtesy of Parlophone). And that's the heady cover. Look at it! Deduce its meaning! Feel the power of its ancient sculpture-meets-crystalline shards!

Maximum linkage warning: Read our recent interview with HC's Alexis Taylor here, listen to the upcoming album's title track here or closer "Take It In" here, and watch the "One Life Stand" video here. Hot Chip are going on tour with the xx-- dates here. And! That amazing Hot Chip t-shirt featuring R. Kelly in a Devo hat is apparently back in stock.


Warmer, deeper and more stripped back than their previous record Made In the Dark- One Life Stand is still conscientiously crafted and informed by the kind of intelligent evaluation that is now second nature to Hot Chip. The seductive and surprisingly glossy finish they can deliver when the mood takes them is enhanced by an emotional honesty and open-hearted optimism that is disarmingly affecting. With both feet in the Jack Track underground roots of classic house and techno, and a heart in candid song-writerly craft, the album is convincingly inspired by Joe Smooth, Marshall Jefferson, Derrick May, Theo Parrish, Bill Withers and Bill Callahan all at once. One Life Stand seeps through to your soul while defiantly striking a pose in the middle of the dance floor called Now!

Tracklist:
1. Thieves In The Night 6:09
2. Hand Me Down Your Love 4:33
3. I Feel Better 4:41
4. One Life Stand 5:24
5. Brothers 4:21
6. Slush 6:29
7. Alley Cats 5:21
8. We Have Love 4:28
9. Keep Quiet 4:02
10.Take It In 4:10

Hot Chip - One Life Stand (MySpace Exclusive)

There doesn't really seem to be some kind of conceptual basis for the clip for "One Life Stand," Hot Chip's newest single, but Hot Chip manages to be entertaining all the same as they horse around in a square room and are shown in some kind of reflective ball that resembles the spherical security cameras that they have in some stores. Sure, they look a little like dorks, but they also look cool doing it.

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Forget 'dance-pop' or 'synth-pop'...
One Life Stand is best defined as a

“pop-soul album”

AS MASTER REMIXERS
OF THE DANCE FLOOR NOW!



-the portastylistic