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Drool

by Part Chimp

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    300 x black vinyl. New shiny zingier year anniversary sleeve. Same music. Same everything. Just wanted the sleeve to be....."MORE".....released June 4th, 2022 - a year to the day since Drool originally came out.

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    Black vinyl, printed inner sleeve.

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    Trans violet vinyl, printed inner sleeve

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    Clear vinyl version. The band has this version available at shows. It's also available in shops.

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about

In the psychic wastelands of the 21st century, one particular sonic force looms large. Transcendental like the malignant force that fuels the zombie movies of lore, Part Chimp have made it their business to shake speaker-stacks, fry brains and induce jouissance and tinnitus alike across the UK. Yet whilst their legendary status as primal paragons of the riff has been largely a fixture of the vinyl-stacks and battered amps of the underground, Drool - their fifth and perhaps finest transmission thus far - has other ideas.

Drool is everything that makes Part Chimp the most intimidating primate fit to lay waste to a city near you. It’s a fearsome testimony to a band with a skewed melodic skill to match their mighty potency. Echoes of their forebears - the ornery prehistoric lurch of Melvins and the droogy ur-clang of Sonic Youth among them - can be distantly discerned, Yet they’re now drowned out by an individual assault as pulverising as invigorating, nihilistic yet life-affirming. This band will demolish your house, but you’ll cheerfully thank them for it afterwards.

At the heart of the zombified stomp of ‘Back From The Dead’, the narcotised drawl of ‘Drool’, and the krautpunk rocket of ‘Up, With Notes’ is not just a gratuitous celebration of fuzz and volume for their own sake but the alchemy that can be achieved with simple ingredients and sleight of hand. Guitarist and vocalist Tim Cedar sums up the raison d’être of Chimp as “the stupid amounts of fun you can have with very loud amps, stupid tunings, weird pedals and weird people. That inspires us”

With recording taking place between various studio sojourns across London, New York and Somerset, and the longtime trio of Tim Cedar, Iain Hinchcliffe and Jon Hamilton joined by appearances from both longtime four-stringer Joe McLaughlin and new recruit Robin Freeman, the emphasis here is on capturing the raw energy of the band in its purest form. “Part Chimp is honest music” reckons Tim. “It’s true to us and what comes out is totally us. If it isn’t, it feels wrong and when it feels wrong, it’s not fun. If it’s too difficult to play or I couldn’t possibly sing this tune. Stop! Next”

Lyrically the focus remains on Cedar’s trademark concoction of “dystopian fantasy dreams with some invertebrates thrown in”, although Henry Blacker/ex-Hey Colossus man Tim Farthing is also on hand to lend his lyrical insights and sandpaper-throated vocal invective to the intimidating heft of ‘It’s True, Man’ - the first guest appearance in the Chimp catalogue. Sound collages like “I Feel Fantastic” and “No Sad Faces” are on hand to add colour to the mélange, amidst an album that values texture as well as brute force. “If there has been any kind of sonic progression over the years, I think we wanted the sound to become more enveloping” reckons Tim. “Getting wrapped up in the sludge rather than being battered with a wave of it”

“I think our joy at playing our tunes comes through the panic and chaos“ he adds. “We have always been on the verge of a sonic calamity. Mostly due to my decrepit equipment, never writing set lists, drunkenness and under-rehearsing. People are used to some degree of professionalism when they see a band. There’s a lot of ‘confidence’ in music these days which can leave me cold. We have always represented the shambolic element of performance. I love it when peoples gear fucks up, strings break, amps fritzing. It brings out the abandon in a performance.”

Smash together abandon and intent, and what you get is Drool. Drool is where unwise decisions blossom into serendipity. It’s more joy through vacuum-tubed catharsis than you’re entitled to. It’s coming for the hearts and minds of heavy music dropouts everywhere whether they like it or not, so they’d be best advised to pay attention.

credits

released June 4, 2021

Tim Cedar - guitar/vocal
Robin Freeman - bass
Jon Hamilton - drums
Iain Hinchliffe - guitar
Joe Mclaughlin - bass
Vocals on It's True Man - Tim Farthing

Recorded by Jerry Melchers at Goldsmiths Studios, New Cross, South London (except Up With Notes - recorded by Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse)
Engineered by Sean Woodlock
Additional tracking by Ben Turner at Axe and Trap, Wells, Somerset
Mixed by Ben Turner at Axe and Trap
Mastered by Jon Hamilton
Wrong Speed Records (UK) / Learning Curve (US)

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Part Chimp London, UK

Part Chimp are a noise rock band from London. Founder members, Tim Cedar and Jon Hamilton formed the band from the embers of Ligament in 2000 and were joined by Iain Hinchliffe (Sawyer), Joe Mclaughlin (Kling Klang) and more recently, Robin Freeman (Hag). They have released 4 albums on Glasgow's Rock Action Records ... more

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