HOT CHIP One Life Stand (2010 UK 10-track CD album - A full-blooded leap into the unknown, 'One Life Stand' is awash with Hot Chip's trademark creative bravery and a searing emotional intensity from first track to last. With songs largely written around the piano, the Wurlitzer, or the Prophet keyboard, and demoed at Alexis' and Joe's respective home studios, the finished record is Hot Chip's most up-front, coherent and melodically bold record to date; an uncluttered, warm and soulful, uplifting and heart-on-sleeve collection. Featuring the archetypal Hot Chip song, title track and first single, 'One Life Stand', built on a metronomic but pulsing groove, and reaching up to a joyously simple/naive chorus of monogamous embracement, the album is from start to finish one of love - euphoric, nostalgic, brotherly, realistic even. It is mainly a sequence of club classic stompers - from the anthemic 'Hand Me Down Your Love' to the life-affirming absurdist black humour of 'I Feel Better' - tempered with the contemplative, tender realism of 'Slush', and the romantic melancholy of 'Alley Cats'. Take it in, if you will; it's all for you!)