OR   Search for Artist/Title    Advanced Search
 
you are not logged in...  [login] 
All Reviews    Edit This Review     
Review: 'Dr Chan'
'Southside Suicide'   

-  Album: 'Southside Suicide' -  Label: 'Stolen Body Records'
-  Genre: 'Rock' -  Release Date: '24th February 2017'

Our Rating:
Given the track titles, I didn’t have much hope for this offering from Parisian Skate Psych band Dr Chan. The hyperstylised renderings of straightforward words ‘YANnnnK$$$ (LifeI$NotFun)’, ‘CRANnnK$$$ (Youth $oOO Cranky)’ and ‘HANnnnK$$$ (Lookin 4 Da $in)’ connotes of little other than hipsterized hip-hop dickishness. But that seems to be kinda the point: Dr Chan aren’t a band which can be taken at face value.

Sonically, they’re a straight-ahead garage band. But dig deeper, and there’s a lot more going on, and they’re keen to draw attention to touchstones which include Californian skate punk sounds like Fidlar, and the idea that they’re ‘rubbing some King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard freakout psych into the wound while flirting with themes and spleen from Floridian Death rap like $uicideboy$’.

Expletive-heavy, shouty, raw garage racket SANnnnK$$$ ($outh$ide $uicide (From XIV WTH LUV))’ positively tears from the speakers with an urgency that’s breath-taking.

There is almost a collection of 60s pop songs somewhere amongst the treble and reverb. This is a raw, ramshackle racket, the songs are short, exuberant blasts of energy, built around simple three or four-chord structures. But what it lacks in refinement – which is a great deal – it compensates in primitive energy. This is, of course, what you want from an old-school garage album with a modern twist.


  author: Christopher Nosnibor

[Show all reviews for this Artist]

READERS COMMENTS    10 comments still available (max 10)    [Click here to add your own comments]

There are currently no comments...
----------



Dr Chan - Southside Suicide