“One Life Stand” by Hot Chip

"One Life Stand" is the title track of Hot Chip's 2010 album, and it reached fans first as an iTunes download on 30 November 2009, ahead of the physical single. Alexis Taylor, who sings it, put the idea simply: take a one-night stand and stretch it into a whole life together, which he reckoned was a sweet thing to say. It's a love song with a steelpan glinting through it, courtesy of Fimber Bravo, and Charles Hayward on drums. The writing credit is shared five ways, between Owen Clarke, Al Doyle, Joe Goddard, Felix Martin and Taylor; the band produced and recorded it themselves, and Dan Carey mixed.

The video, by Dutch filmmaker Roel Wouters, catches the band reflected in a silver ball fixed to the ceiling of a square room while the camera spins, and the members filmed roughly half the footage themselves on handycams.

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