User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 76 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 58 out of 76
  2. Negative: 9 out of 76

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  1. CarlS
    Feb 10, 2010
    6
    There's a good review of this album here: http://thedailyauration.blogspot.com/ The blog reviews a new album every day, and Hot Chip is today's.
  2. BrentG.
    Feb 10, 2010
    4
    Very inconsistent record. With that said, several gems, but too many stinkers in here.
Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 34 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 34
  2. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. This is an imbalanced record, and one that leaves you frustrated rather than elated. But despite the blips, they have dished up at least two cerebral bangers here.
  2. They’re not badly written songs, but as the band contentedly set sail towards genteel Robert Wyatt-esque pop-soul balladry, fans might be left back on the shore wondering what happened to the idiosyncratic Hot Chip they fell in love with.
  3. One Life Stand feels English in the best possible sense: it's cosmopolitan, unassuming and ever-so-slightly eccentric.