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''One Life Stand'' is the fourth studio album by English electronic band Hot Chip, released digitally on 1 February 2010. The physical album was released in the United Kingdom on 1 February 2010 by Parlophone and in the United States the following week on 9 February 2010 by Astralwerks. The first single from the album, "One Life Stand", was released digitally on 30 November 2009 through the iTunes Store. Vocalist Alexis Taylor described the album as "the most warm and soulful sounding record we've made" and expressed hope that people would also say it was "a soulful quality that ties (album ) together". ==Production== ''One Life Stand'' was not recorded in the manner that previous albums were. Taylor stated that the album was not "made in short bursts" but was "made with time".〔 The first song created was "Alley Cats", which was written near the end of the band's 2008 tour, the only song to be written and performed whilst on tour. From performing it live, the band formulated a structure for the song that they felt would work and added a number of new features, such as new melodics, new hooks and a new bass line.〔 The band partly returned to the creative process used in the creation of ''The Warning'' in that some parts of songs were written and recorded in Goddard's bedroom, with Taylor also writing from his house and recording in the room he designated as a "music room".〔 These parts were then built upon in a studio where the band had more space, enabling them to "expand on things".〔 Goddard used Cubase to record at his house whilst Logic Pro was used in the studio as well as GarageBand to create parts of songs. Of the latter Taylor said, "that's what I use for recording, and that's like half of the record is going through that program".〔 In regards to the creation of the music, Taylor stated that everyone had involvement in aspects of all of the tracks.〔 Taylor stated that the group felt as though they had exhausted their home studio sound and the possibilities of the instruments they could use at home.〔 Despite this, Taylor explained that he and Joe have a similar work aesthetic and that ideas would "come () any time of the day or night"; working on material at home would enable them to "record at home whenever ideas come".〔 However Taylor stated, "even the studio we worked in, it's not like a professional studio that is like, top of the range. It's just a big basement with a desk and various synthesizers and a drum kit."〔 Goddard said that although the album came together easily, the band had difficulty creating "Hand Me Down Your Love" because "it was just a matter of months and months of adding synthesizers, () adding drum parts", which resulted in "something like 160 tracks or pieces of music". As well as this, the band needed to edit out sections that they felt were unnecessary. Goddard discussed the element of time and stated that because the band had more time to create the album, they "tried things out differently" which was ultimately "a little bit unhelpful" due to the number of recorded parts that were never used.〔 Goddard said the band wanted to move away from synths and minimised their presence by making them more subtle. Although the band wanted the album to be a pop record and present "a unified front", Al Doyle stated that the band did not want to lose the "experimental element that () had before". To achieve this the band used a broader range of instruments, including a flugelhorn and steelpans in combination with synths and drum machines, as well as a guitar, a drum kit and a piano.〔 Doyle said it was "quite exciting for (band ) to work with that palette of instruments".〔 Whilst the band wanted to create an album that was more cohesive, Taylor said that they did not "try to make it all sound like (songs are ) from the same record".〔 The cohesiveness and unity of the album was a by-product of the way the band spent their time crafting it: When the album was completed and handed over to the label, their response was positive: "Cool, we really like it". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「One Life Stand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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