Athens Exchange
  • home
  • daily
  • athens
  • music
  • film & tv
  • food
  • sports
  • sci & tech
  • popfest 2008
 
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Weather: , °
search:  
Buy Radiohead tickets, Coachella Festival tickets, Kanye West tickets, Tom Petty tickets, Rascal Flatts tickets, and loads more concert tickets right here!


Post a Comment        E-mail To A Friend        Join The List        AddThis Social Bookmark Button

The Chap, Mega Breakfast

Photo Credit: www.thechap.org
by Carrie Dagenhard
06/06/2008

Think of Mega Breakfast as a life raft in a sea of mediocre pop rock. The third album from London-based experimental pop group The Chap isn’t just catchy, it’s downright addictive. But unlike your average, run-of-the mill pop record, it’s overflowing with unpredictability. And it’s something you’ll keep on loop for more than a week.

The album combines orchestral and synthesized layers with unique vocals reminiscent of The Sea and Cake or Athens’ own Of Montreal, but not quite as tame. Part tongue-in cheek humor and part real life seriousness, Mega Breakfast is the type of album that you’ll listen to repeatedly just to grasp. Each track boasts witty and sometimes provocative lyrics that will leave you laughing during the first listen, and agreeing with by the third. Take the lyrics "Come on, come on, cloner, clone me another me / My generation needs another me," from the track “Fun and Interesting," for example.

The album is refreshingly idiosyncratic and slightly disturbing in that can’t-quit-listening sort of way. The complex recordings and variation of instruments takes an album that would be otherwise dull and yawn-worthy three tracks in, and gives it an epic sound that is much desired in an era of simple structured indie rock. It’s got new wave dance beats, mournful violin, and almost everything in-between. With all of this, one can hardly fathom what a live show with The Chap would be like.

Mega Breakfast is infectious, peculiar and confusing as hell. Give it a listen. And if you can figure it out, you’ve got one up on me.

Technorati Tags

Chap   Mega Breakfast   Pop   Record   Cd   Review  

Comments   [post a comment]

Name
Email
URL
Body
Are you human?
  • popular
  • fresh
  • Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl:” It’s No Big Deal, It’s Innocent?
  • Unshaken by Lucifer: Roky Erickson at the 40 Watt, 8/14/08
  • The Lolligags/ The Apes, PopFest, 40 Watt, 8/15/08
  • Big Fresh/ Thee American Revolution/ Pipes You See Pipes You Don't/ Andy from Denver/ Casper and the Cookies, PopFest, 40 Watt, 8/16/08
  • Longhalsmottagningen/ Bad Animal/ Young Untold/ American Cheeseburger, PopFest, Little Kings, 8/16/08
  • Oh Fortuna/ Marc With A C/ Hot Lava, PopFest, Flicker, 8/16/08
  • Stereolab, Chemical Chords
  • more music
  • [Recorded] Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl:” It’s No Big Deal, It’s Innocent?
  • [Recorded] Unshaken by Lucifer: Roky Erickson at the 40 Watt, 8/14/08
  • [Recorded] The Lolligags/ The Apes, PopFest, 40 Watt, 8/15/08
  • [Recorded] Big Fresh/ Thee American Revolution/ Pipes You See Pipes You Don't/ Andy from Denver/ Casper and the Cookies, PopFest, 40 Watt, 8/16/08
  • [Recorded] Longhalsmottagningen/ Bad Animal/ Young Untold/ American Cheeseburger, PopFest, Little Kings, 8/16/08
  • [Recorded] Oh Fortuna/ Marc With A C/ Hot Lava, PopFest, Flicker, 8/16/08
  • [Recorded] Stereolab, Chemical Chords
  • more from carrie dagenhard
  • [Recorded] Big Fresh/ Thee American Revolution/ Pipes You See Pipes You Don't/ Andy from Denver/ Casper and the Cookies, PopFest, 40 Watt, 8/16/08
  • [Recorded] Cryptacize/ The Secret History/ The Faintest Ideas/ Ruby Isle/ The Buddy System/ The Lolligags, PopFest 2008, 40 Watt, 8/15/08
  • [Recorded] Down Home with the Neelys Brings Soul Cuisine To The Small Screen
  • [Recorded] The Chap, Mega Breakfast
  • [Recorded] Entertainment, Gender
Contact • Contribute • Privacy Policy

© 2008 Athens Exchange
Powered By Boxkite Media