Hot Chip - One Life Stand

allmusic“They sound ready to settle down...” Though this emotional nakedness is an unusual move after Made in the Dark pushed Hot Chip to a new level of attention and acclaim, it also shows they’re in it for the long haul...

Dusted Magazine“Disco’s blissful ephemerality and an indie-affiliated emotional maturity.” New Romantic is blurring looks and sounds different than it did 25 years ago, but it’s still around, and still has a point to make...

Uncut“Beguiling fourth from the impressively unclassifiable London brainiacs...” It isn't a coincidence that this, Hot Chip's most focused album, is also their finest - more ruthless editing in future will doubtless yield even more spectacular results...

Pitchfork“Their best record yet...” It's a move akin to the one Pet Shop Boys took circa Behaviour-- a near-shedding of their more overt disco and house influences and an embrace of personal songwriting free of irony or distance...

The Telegraph“A giddying delight...” The fourth album from Hot Chip is a giddy delight, seamlessly marrying their intimate, microbeat electronica with sweet, melodious, emotional pop...

The Times“Tone and tempo remain celebratory...” Lovely as it surely is to be in Hot Chip, it wouldn’t mean anything if it wasn’t as much fun to listen to them. But One Life Stand is an album on which even the machines sound happy around them...

The Independent“Full of earnest endeavour, but lacking verve and creative zest...” Their brand of lumpen electronic pop labours over basic stratagems, one's heart-sinking anticipation of the inevitable worsened by the length of time the inevitable takes to arrive...

Drowned In Sound“A heady cocktail...” Heart/sleeve interface may be at record highs on this album, but only a cast-iron cynic would turn their noses up when the treats on offer are so lovingly prepared...

Guardian“If only all bands possessed so many great ideas...” One Life Stand not only sees them back on track, it's also their best work, paring down those past excesses and unifying them into an extraordinarily lovely whole...

MusicOMH“This is great music. It's also very English music...” But One Life Stand feels English in the best possible sense: it's cosmopolitan, unassuming and ever-so-slightly eccentric...