Today’s featured Scottish act’s song comes courtesy of its inclusion on David Cameron’s Eton Mess, a compilation album released in October 2015 on Song, By Toad Records. This is the fifth time I’ve gone to that album, and here’s a reminder of what it was all about:-
“Almost all of the singers and bands were, at the time, unknown with very little more than a few tracks available online or via a limited physical release, most often cheaply done on a cassette. Label owner, Matthew Young, said at the time:-
“Most of the bands are friends and a lot of musicians feature on several of the album’s tracks, one of the reasons why we’ve put the compilation together. It feels like there’s this pool of really talented musicians bubbling away and all sorts of excellent music is starting to emerge from the mix. Bands are forming, breaking up, and starting again all the time. When you see a loose collection of bands connecting like this you never know what is going to happen. A few will disappear, some will do okay, some might pave the way for others, and a few of these bands could go on to do really well.”
The track from Chump was this:-
mp3: Chump – Sleeping In (Bedroom Demo)
It’s as lo-fi and minimalist a song as I have on the hard drive, but there’s something very beguiling about it.
It’s quite difficult to find out much about Chump.
Discogs describes their sound as ‘sulkcore’ which I think is a fantastic word. The bandcamp page reveals the three members are Tara (guitar, vocals), Matthieu (drums, piano, metallophone) and Tony (bass, guitar). In addition to this track, there’s five other songs available in digital form, originally released via a cassette called Treat Me Mean, back in April 2016. There was a later 7″ single, At Least We Got A Song Out Of It, that was released on Gerry Loves Records in March 2017.
The Facebook page has details of some live shows in March 2018, after which it all went quiet.
I’m really quite pissed off that I never got to see them as I reckon, having listened to the tracks via bandcamp (and then paid for the digital download), that I would have enjoyed them.
Today’s featured Scottish act’s song comes courtesy of its inclusion on David Cameron’s Eton Mess, a compilation album released in October 2015 on Song, By Toad Records. This is the fifth time I’ve gone to that album, and here’s a reminder of what it was all about:-
“Almost all of the singers and bands were, at the time, unknown with very little more than a few tracks available online or via a limited physical release, most often cheaply done on a cassette. Label owner, Matthew Young, said at the time:-
“Most of the bands are friends and a lot of musicians feature on several of the album’s tracks, one of the reasons why we’ve put the compilation together. It feels like there’s this pool of really talented musicians bubbling away and all sorts of excellent music is starting to emerge from the mix. Bands are forming, breaking up, and starting again all the time. When you see a loose collection of bands connecting like this you never know what is going to happen. A few will disappear, some will do okay, some might pave the way for others, and a few of these bands could go on to do really well.”
The track from Chump was this:-
mp3: Chump – Sleeping In (Bedroom Demo)
It’s as lo-fi and minimalist a song as I have on the hard drive, but there’s something very beguiling about it.
It’s quite difficult to find out much about Chump.
Discogs describes their sound as ‘sulkcore’ which I think is a fantastic word. The bandcamp page reveals the three members are Tara (guitar, vocals), Matthieu (drums, piano, metallophone) and Tony (bass, guitar). In addition to this track, there’s five other songs available in digital form, originally released via a cassette called Treat Me Mean, back in April 2016. There was a later 7″ single, At Least We Got A Song Out Of It, that was released on Gerry Loves Records in March 2017.
The Facebook page has details of some live shows in March 2018, after which it all went quiet.
I’m really quite pissed off that I never got to see them as I reckon, having listened to the tracks via bandcamp (and then paid for the digital download), that I would have enjoyed them.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 