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Hot Chip - One Life Stand
Every one likes Hot Chip, me, the Mrs, the kids, hip kids, geek kids, old people that like humming, taxi drivers, radio 1 (big time), the music press, I wouldn’t be supprised if Nelson Mandela, the Pope and Jeremy Paxman all thought Hot Chip were shit hot.
But why do these 80’s throw backs manage to get so much good publicity along with the plaudits, its simple in the way that any computer geek will ever tell you, they manage to draw our attentions in and keep them sat plum in the chair enjoying the moment, and on top of that, they manage to know the formula for a great pop tune.
And this trend hasn’t changed on latest album One Life Stand, they are still banging away on the indie anthems and floor fillers as shown on self titled latest single, and this is repeated on opening track Thieves in the Night, with all the geeky thumb twiddling doing overtime to get us going.
Again the perfect combination of crossover is shown on Hand Me Down My Love, that you’d have this penned down as single, but then I’m listening to Slush and thinking this is going to go mad in a minute and sound all Enigma doing the native American thing, but no, it just turns into a bit of torch burner, that aint so bad, although at 6.29, it does tend to take the piss a bit for something that doesn’t shift gear at any point.
- Hot Chip
- One Life Stand (2010)
- Category: Album
- Label: EMI
- Reviewed by: Keachy
- Published on: 09 Feb 2010
- Comments: 0
- Beat Surrender Rating:
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Add to favouritesThe mood stays a bit sombre on Alley Cats and We Have Love is everything I hated about the late 80’s dance/synth nonsense and doesn’t make me want to strut my stuff at all, but I quickly forgive them as final track Take It In is that good that it seems a shame to have placed it at the back of the queue.
So what do we think? Well it doesn’t stand up as a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but then again, is that too much to be expected from Hot Chip, especially when they’ve managed to cover so much ground in such a short time?
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