GICHARD - Chins For Lefty LP Ska

GICHARD - Chins For Lefty LP SkaChins For Lefty is the debut album and first recording by Gichard, a new duo chronicling the absurdities of end stage capitalism and mouldering social rituals from their vantage point in Glasgow, Scotland. Recorded primarily in the bands home studio straight to tape, Chins For Lefty combines gorgeous, ramshackle melody, DIY kosmische punk, drum machine + synth and, in vocalist lyricist Lisa Jones, an absurdist commentator on the human condition as it

we hear Shiroishi joined by a supporting cast that reads like a who’s-who of heavy music: Aaron Turner (SUMAC

Some had never worked in Low

Recorded here and there

lacking the lushness of their prior recordings

The album received extremely positive reviews

the brief tracks (rarely more than two minutes in length) were seemingly designed to be interstitial compositions and sound sketches for use in some imaginary film or documentary

slicing into the groove with gristly acoustic percussion that drags it up from the basement

the record emphasises the clarity and depth of Mogard’s frequencies

the first recording by the Oslo-based trio of Andrea Giordano (voice and organetto)

was another Best New Music pick and hailed as one of the best debuts of the decade

With a deadline near it ended up being an it-is-what-it-is situation

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