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10.0
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The Fly
...their underdog days are thoroughly over; more than ever, Hot Chip are entirely on fire
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10.0
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Daily Telegraph
...a giddy delight, seamlessly marrying their intimate, microbeat electronica with sweet, melodious, emotional pop
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9.0
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Pop Matters
One Life Stand may be less pleasingly idiosyncratic than Hot Chip’s previous work, but it pays off in their most consistently winning set of songs to date.
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9.0
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FasterLouder
Unlike so many dance acts, who are preoccupied with rhythm and movement to the exclusion of all else, One Life Stand is a soul album that sneaks in under the cover of a dance record
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8.4
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Pitchfork
One Life Stand has a sense of consistency and completeness missing from their other records
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8.0
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music OMH
One Life Stand feels English in the best possible sense: it's cosmopolitan, unassuming and ever-so-slightly eccentric
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8.0
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Rave Magazine
Unlike Made In The Dark, which sagged in places, One Life Stand is listenable from beginning to end and, in its own way, pretty addictive
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8.0
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Q
Print edition only
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8.0
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Observer Music Monthly
One Life Stand not only sees them back on track, it's also their best work, paring down those past excesses and unifying them into an extraordinarily lovely whole
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8.0
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Uncut
Like the album as a whole and the group who made it, it's intriguing, beguiling, occasionally too clever by half - but never, ever boring
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8.0
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The Guardian
Marvellously, an uninspiring mid-section aside, this is still music to dance to. More than dance in fact; you can exult to this
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8.0
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The Irish Times
...the band take inspiration from both their obvious fondness for the dancefloor and an empathy with pop's more eccentric characters
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8.0
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The List
A romantic album with a difference, it maybe doesn’t break boundaries, but it still delivers
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8.0
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The Times
One Life Stand is an album on which even the machines sound happy around them
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8.0
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Evening Standard
Hot Chip end their finest album to date with their first classic song
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8.0
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Independent on Sunday
One Life Stand isn't just a good record. It's a brave one
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8.0
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The Observer
So much electronic music affects a stony froideur. Hot Chip, by contrast, have made a great big aural hug of a record
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8.0
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The Music Fix
This album will not only please the die-hard fans but will also rake in some new ones. Unabashedly poppy with catchy rhythms and clever lyrics, these tasty tunes will get you on your feet
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8.0
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God Is In The TV
..seems more cohesive in it’s themes and overall style when compared to their earlier releases
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7.0
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Clash
...different to ‘Made In The Dark’ but a more cohesive and more heartfelt effort too. ‘One True Life’ sees Hot Chip let us into their hearts as well as their thoughts
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7.0
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Drowned In Sound
Hot Chip seem like a band who have spent their time in the ring and are now happy enough to hang back in the dressing room penning love-letters
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7.0
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NME
‘One Life Stand’ does have some of the best songs of the year on it. But, again, waiting for Hot Chip to make that classic album is a bit like waiting for an alcoholic parent to arrive at your birthday party
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7.0
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NME
Though full of the reasons why this band are undoubtedly one to treasure, is cause for a fourth slamming of the fist onto the table with frustration
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
They're old-school suckers for love, and they always give their heart-hopeful anthems just the right undercurrent of ache.
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6.5
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The Line Of Best Fit
Shows a band keen to progress and develop, which can only be commended. But for the listener it’s a bit of a disconcerting experience, lurching about from sound to sound like being drunk on a waltzer
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6.0
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The Skinny
...the London quintet's dalliances with Europop vocoders, trancey synths and steel drums steer cuts like I Feel Better dangerously close to mid-life crisis terrain
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6.0
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Spin
One Life Stand finds the boys settling down and growing a tad soft in the middle
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6.0
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Mojo
Print edition only
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6.0
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No Ripcord
It would be unfair to criticize the band members for heeding new muses, but it is entirely reasonable to hope that those muses are not telling them to become the Coldplay of electronic music
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4.0
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The Independent
It's an album full of earnest endeavour, but lacking verve and creative zest
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