Following up their *very* well-received 2021 self-titled debut album, Chime School are back with more perfect pop, this time on the most pop of formats, the 7″ single. “Coming To Your Town” was recorded while sick with COVID and rather fittingly is a feverish attempt to describe the reactionary political moment that seemed to infect the Bay Area during the pandemic. Leave it to Chime School to pen a classic 12-string jangle pop tune about the breakdown of civil society. It’s not all cats and motorbikes chez Chime School! On the flip side we have the band’s lovely Brighter/Field Mice-esque take of Buzzcocks’ “Love You More.” Originally released on the Oakland Weekender Buzzcocks covers cassette, it’s available on vinyl here for the first time.
TOUR DATES:
3/4 – Oakland, CA Bandcamp Oakland %
3/31 – San Francisco, CA – Make Out Room #
4/19 – Bellingham, WA The Ballroom *
4/20 – Seattle, WA Billiard Hoang *
4/21 – Olympia, WA Le Voyeur *
4/22 – Eugene, OR Luckey’s Club *
4/23 – Portland, OR Turn Turn Turn *
* = w/ Blues Lawyer
% = w/ Fake Fruit & Sissyfit
# = w/ The Reds, Pinks & Purples & Wayne Faler
Chime School
“Coming To Your Town”
(Slumberland Records)
[click here to pre-order]
Vinyl Street Date: April 7
Track List:
A: Coming To Your Town
B: Love You More
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