"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE CHAP ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF NEW ALBUM, WELL DONE EUROPE
COMPRESSES ENTIRE ALBUM INTO 3:30 MINUTE PREVIEW
COMPRESSES ENTIRE ALBUM INTO 3:30 MINUTE PREVIEW
In their quest to create music which "sounds wrong," London/Berlin-based The Chap preempted the current flavor for lo-fi prog-pop music by several years and released two seminal bedroom-produced classics, The Horse and Ham, the latter in particular gathering considerable acclaim. Thus, they decided to release a third masterpiece, Mega Breakfast, which focused on corporate motivational-style anthems about "proper music" and wanting to clone oneself. Weirdly, commercial success and world domination continued to evade them, so The Chap finally decided to "sell out" by recording this, Well Done Europe, their fourth album. Needless to say, it is alsoa masterpiece. It contains hit after hit, quite a few of which mention love and death and stuff like that. It sounds like the coolest new wave pop album ever recorded by a group of teachers (almost nobody in The Chap is a teacher).
As it says in one of the songs on Well Done Europe: They got the funding.
For more info, please visit:
http://www.thechap.org
http://www.myspace.com/thechap
from matt
to brooke
date Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:47 PM
FAIL
from Brooke B
to matt
date Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:50 PM
Which part fail
from matt
to brooke
date Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:55 PM
Sorry I'm grumpy.
The "compressed" skip-thru-the-album mp3 is annoying. But then it does fit with the quest to create music which "sounds wrong" aesthetic. Soooo I think their success is my failure? Anyways. :)
from Brooke
to matt
date Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:01 PM
I know it sounds like crap, but that's kind of what these guys do and I respect them for it. They fuck with stuff. You want to hear the actual album? It's awesome.
Do you know their previous stuff? I always wonder how they can make things sound so weird and simultaneously so darn catchy.
from matt
to brooke
date Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:50 PM
I'll tell you what: I don't want you to waste valuable memory sharing the album with me. I'm gonna go listen to the Chap's previous works scattered around the web - youtube, myspace, etc - and get back to you.
I typically like weird yet catchy things. But I hate music that is so weird I have to work to enjoy it, and/or music so weird it seems pretentious. I realize I am being pretentious when I say this.
Let me get back to you shortly.
from Brooke
to matt
date Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:08 PM
Not at all. Check out their MySpace or wherever else and see if it grabs you.
I'm over "difficult" music as well at the moment, but dang I like these guys' senses of humor.
from matt
to brooke
date Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:38 PM
I admire their tongue-in-cheek winking sense of pretense... I mean, the "Influences" section of their Myspace HAS to be sort of a joke, right? Except when it's not.. It's as though the joke is that they are not joking. Their most catchy song, Proper Rock, is about how you have to make "proper rock" in order to get people to dance... there's some irony in there. Meanwhile "Fun And Interesting" is both a song title and is literally a description of what they are trying to pull off, isn't it?
Nevertheless, I only dig about every other song. And within the songs I dig, there's stuff I could do without. It's chin-stroking music. Something's getting stroked, at any rate.
Does what I'm saying make sense?
How about this: for making me think about what it is I do and do not like in music, I'll post something to my blog, whatever that is worth. What would you like me to post? A link to their Myspace page? A link to the compressed mp3 of their forthcoming album? Tell me. If/when I start pulling an on-air shift at CHIRP Radio this summer, I'll spin the song(s) I like. Yeah?
matt
