Hot Chip - One Life Stand - Album Review

Written By Willy The Knight
Score 6.0/10

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For the last couple years the electro-pop band Hot Chip has been a strong group in the UK, having multiple singles and remixes and their last album even received a Grammy-nomination for best dance track in 2008[1]. Coming into the new decade, Hot Chip gave us a new album that doesn’t seem to live up to what this band was at one time.

Their new album One Life Stand seems almost mediocre to what they used to be. What they should have done is taken some of the stronger tracks like One Life Stand and We Have Love and released them as an EP. But what we have here is an album that is slow to start and doesn’t pick up any speed. I found myself distracted by my surroundings rather than enjoying the music.

Most opening tracks try to give you a voice of what the album is going to bring, but Thieves In The Night sounds like a track that someone had kept locked away for a few decades- circa 1982. For the better part of the album Alexis Taylor’s voice has very little emotion, which made listening the whole album less of an experience and more like a task.

To Hot Chip’s credit, they have always been known for their diversity in song writing. This album being no exception, each song has its own style and uniqueness and that shows a lot of different aspect of what dance pop is from Latin to electro to more rock oriented riffs. I really enjoyed, “We Have Love” in particular as it is a fast tempo’d dance track that has a very infectious beat and a great lead.

Hot Chip – We Have Love

One thing I expect to see is a few remixes from various DJs and DJ groups. The songs themselves have great structure and melody, but need a good chopping up to make them have more flair and color. All in all there are a few good tracks that will be able to carry there own weight as singles but rating this album as a whole Hot Chip could have written a better and more exciting record.

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Willy The Knight - who has written 4 posts on Indie Rock Reviews.

He's that kid you knew liven in the IE that didn't exactly fit-in in high school. Having been raised by parents who were always keeping up-to-date with the "here and now" artists, Willy had the chance to grow up listening to everything from The doors, to David Bowie, to Nirvana and the rest of the Seattle grunge scene. As a kid he began to learn to play piano and later guitar while listening to a lot of Punk and Ska during high school. Now grown up, Willy is always lookin for the new thing that excites his interest from indie to electro to folk to hardcore and beyond. If it's got passion or energy he's probably gonna dig it. Willy's got an acute sense for production and catch. Get to know Willy cause he wants a lady of the streets but a freak in the bed. Ya Dig?

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