Hot Chip: One Life Stand | CD review

ParlophoneHot Chip have always seemed older than their years, but this album, their fourth, is the one in which they grow up for real. They have always paired an ear for the dancefloor with an eye for the impenetrable lyric, their songs brimming with so much energy, so many ideas that the listener was sometimes scalded. In One Life Stand, however, everything is pared back and prised open. Musically, melody is to the fore, with new lines grafted carefully on to one another, the predomina...

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