Fixing a Hole (2018)
I feel like I’m probably gong to be writing about the amazing Waterslide/PopKid show that happened when I was in Tokyo for the rest of my life. It was such an incredible time and I will never forget how much fun I had and how important that night was to me. One of the great bands that played the show was Chippendale. I wasn’t really all that familiar with them prior to the show, but I left that night a pretty big fan of the songs they had played.
Fast forward a couple of years later and I have their full album in my possession finally. Kill The Time Until Die is a nine song journey through some fantastically bleak, but energetic punk rock. The bands that come to mind when I listen to the record first are Scandinavian imports such as early Manifesto Jukebox and Phoenix Foundation. I also hear a little bit of I Excuse is some of the album's more frantic moments. But where those bands would be a nonstop, aggressive bash in the skull, Chippendale leans towards a borderline shoegaze sound. I still hear the tinges of anger and dissolution, but they’re presented in a more melodic way.
That’s not to say the band isn’t perfectly capable of turning their amps up to ten and unleashing a barrage of downstroke mayhem. But I think the band is most successful when they indulge their melodic tendencies. Kill The Time Until Die is a really dynamic listen. I’m so glad I got to see them play live, even if it was just that one time.
Chippendale - “Unexpected”:
http://fixingahole.jpn.org/mp3s/chippendale-unexpected.mp3
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