COMPRESSES ENTIRE ALBUM INTO 3:30 MINUTE PREVIEW
“We time-compressed the entire album into 3 minutes and 30 seconds. It's the future of music consumption. All the emotional gain, without the investment of time.” – Keith Duncan, The Chap (below, with helicopter)
“The Chap is the sound of the music-genre glass ceiling being smashed by hard-headed young London lads and lasses with little more than a 20-gig iPod on shuffle….a heart full of pop choruses and quirk that surpasses the stabs at world music, prog rock, and post-dance music.” – XLR8R
“The Chap give birth to freakish Dadaist disco babies – you'll love it! – NME
Pan-European modern pop group The Chap have announced th
e release of their fourth full-length album, Well Done Europe, in the US on July 6 via Lo Recordings. To celebrate this joyous event, the band has compressed the entire album into a 3:30 minute preview, the modern-day alternative to the mp3 giveaway.
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).
The Chap's music celebrates the best of pop culture whilst striving to bring something fresh and innovative to the party. The band's live performances were met with incredible response at SXSW and on their last tour of the US, and they've continued to develop a reputation as one of the most exciting, challenging, and engaging live acts around.
