Built on a Weak Spot

Apologies for the short hiatus, but various outside matters kind of got me down and the site kind of suffered for a week from it. Anyway, all is well now and I am back with some more jams that will hopefully interest a few of you.

I think Part Chimp are one of the few bands that when they come up during shuffle on my iPod I find myself being impressed with them all over again. There are songs on I Am Come that pop up that still blow me away. I can’t really pinpoint why, but being excessively loud both on record and live might play a part in it. Thriller happens to be the London based group’s third full-length album, which has been handled by the Mogwai imprint Rock Action. While I’m not big on Mogwai, someone in the band must know what’s up if they had the good mind to sign this band. So props to whomever that may have been…you are now my favorite member of Mogwai.

One thing noticeably apparent upon first listen of Thriller is that the production is cleaner, not as muddied and overall distorted as previous material I’d say. I mean there is plenty of distortion, it is Part Chimp we’re talking about here after all, but I guess maybe all that fuzz is just a bit more defined? I don’t know. There is certainly more depth here than I could ever really pick out of the bands sound and really with a band as forceful and overwhelmingly heavy as Part Chimp something like that is just icing on the cake. It’s hard to argue with the results after three albums of the bands volume intensive sludgy riffing, but every time it seems to work and genuinely impress. Thriller opens with the stoner exploration tune “Trad” and from there continues to pour it on for eight more tracks. Excellent as always.

Part Chimp – Trad [stream]

No word that I could find on a release date for the US, however it’s available on CD and digitally through Rock Action. If you’re already fan, then you likely already have it…but if not this is as good of a place as any to jump in and enjoy.

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