Stream Chime School’s debut LP early via Week In Pop
Out this Friday via Slumberland Records
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Week In Pop has premiered Chime School’s self-titled debut a few days early. Listen to the record here. Chime School is due this Friday via Slumberland Records. In case you’ve missed the previous videos, check out “Taking Time To Tell You,” “It’s True,” and “Wait Your Turn.”
Bio:
Chime School is the project of San Francisco musician Andy Pastalaniec. Endlessly charmed by 80s indie and its 60s forbearers (and any record with a 12-string guitar), Andy cut his teeth as a drummer with SLR labelmates Odd Hope in their early group Pink Films; later with shoegazers Cruel Summer, and currently with indie-pop outfit Seablite. But it wasn’t until he was gifted a cassette 4-track portastudio “almost as a dare,” that he came out from behind the kit to write and record his own material.
Aptly named for its autodidact roots, Chime School pays homage to the formative jangle of The Byrds by way of early Primal Scream and The Springfields; the production and pop sensibility of the Biff Bang Pow and The Razorcuts; and the spirit of great singles labels like Creation, Postcard and Sarah. From the dreamy album opener “Wait Your Turn” to the driving jangle of “Dead Saturdays” and the lush, epic “Gone Too Fast” we can see that we’re in the presence of a very talented writer indeed, someone with a lifetime’s worth of pop fandom just waiting to burst out in song.
It’s challenging to take familiar musical forms and make them feel fresh and new, but Andy has tackled the task with aplomb on this assured debut. Featuring future classic singles like “It’s True” and “Taking Time To Tell You” it’s certain to catch the ears of indie-pop fans, for sure, but will also be a balm for anyone in love with melodic, classic guitar pop.
LP Release Show
11/12 – San Francisco, CA – The Knockout
Chime School
Chime School
(Slumberland Records)
[click here to pre-order]
Street Date: November 5, 2021
Track List:
1. Wait Your Turn
2. Taking Time To Tell You
3. Dead Saturdays
4. Fixing Motorcycles
5. Anywhere But Here
6. Radical Leisure
7. Get A Bike
8. Gone Too Fast
9. It’s True
10. Calling In Sick
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