{"id":482,"date":"2010-08-10T16:27:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=482"},"modified":"2010-08-10T16:42:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:42:41","slug":"hot-chip-one-life-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/hot-chip-one-life-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"HOT CHIP + One Life Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hot-Chip-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-483\" title=\"Hot-Chip-M-Review-JanFeb2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hot-Chip-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg\" alt=\"HOT CHIP - One Life Stand \" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hot-Chip-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Hot-Chip-M-Review-JanFeb2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>HOT CHIP<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><em>One Life Stand<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Astralwerks]<\/p>\n<p>Hot Chip\u2019s warm and fuzzy fourth album is not without its bangers, but even when this London electro-pop quartet is gunning for the clubs, it\u2019s thinking about what\u2019s waiting at home. Almost too sweet for their beats, the thumping, bumping likes of \u201cI Feel Better\u201d and \u201cWe Have Love\u201d are about finding comfort in the arms of another. The album\u2019s 10 tracks rank among the mellowest and most melodic Hot Chip has recorded. In fact, often the use of synthesizers feels incidental: The subtle electronic touches on \u201cSlush\u201d and \u201cHand Me Down Your Love\u201d add little more than color. On the tone-setting opener, \u201cThieves in the Night,\u201d the group rides a bubbly Erasure groove back to 1986. Proving suave and sincere need not be mutually exclusive, singer Alexis Taylor floats his falsetto high above the sparkle, delivering the disc\u2019s hopeful thesis: \u201cHappiness is what we all want.\u201d \u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOT CHIP One Life Stand [Astralwerks] Hot Chip\u2019s warm and fuzzy fourth album is not without its bangers, but even when this London electro-pop quartet is gunning for the clubs, it\u2019s thinking about what\u2019s waiting at home. Almost too sweet for their beats, the thumping, bumping likes of \u201cI Feel Better\u201d and \u201cWe Have Love\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,187,185,32,186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}