Euros Childs - Chops
December 29th 2006 23:56
Album No. 4: Euros Childs – Chops (Wichita)
After the sad demise of his former group, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, one could expect front man Euros Childs to rest on his laurels for a while and take stock of what was left. But no. For Childs, the best thing to do was write some clearly beautiful and insanely idiosyncratic songs about donkeys, ice cream and surfing and then perform them in every venue available for about 10 months. This was a good idea.
Not only is 'Chops' a glorious album, peppered with sublime harmonic interest and plain good songwriting, it is the beginning of a new chapter for Childs. With the promise of this record and the massive strength of his live shows taken on board and thoroughly well executed, material for album no. 2 is setting up camp in the top end of next year's list as well. 'Chops' remains, though, a wonderful collection of weird ideas (the half-sung sleeping mania of 'Billy the Seagull'), acid folk frippery (the eight minute stomp of 'First Time I Saw You') and genuinely beautiful folk-pop genius (the quality insanity of 'Donkey Island'). A truly exploratory and invigorating listen every time.
Yeah, you go here. There's links to a load of stuff PM dun for Indie Workshop and some feckenace MP3s. Enjoy and "recogg"!
After the sad demise of his former group, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, one could expect front man Euros Childs to rest on his laurels for a while and take stock of what was left. But no. For Childs, the best thing to do was write some clearly beautiful and insanely idiosyncratic songs about donkeys, ice cream and surfing and then perform them in every venue available for about 10 months. This was a good idea.
Not only is 'Chops' a glorious album, peppered with sublime harmonic interest and plain good songwriting, it is the beginning of a new chapter for Childs. With the promise of this record and the massive strength of his live shows taken on board and thoroughly well executed, material for album no. 2 is setting up camp in the top end of next year's list as well. 'Chops' remains, though, a wonderful collection of weird ideas (the half-sung sleeping mania of 'Billy the Seagull'), acid folk frippery (the eight minute stomp of 'First Time I Saw You') and genuinely beautiful folk-pop genius (the quality insanity of 'Donkey Island'). A truly exploratory and invigorating listen every time.
Yeah, you go here. There's links to a load of stuff PM dun for Indie Workshop and some feckenace MP3s. Enjoy and "recogg"!
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