ARTiST: Hockey
ALBUM: Mind Chaos
BiTRATE: 166kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Capitol
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 57.69 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 45min 37sec total
RiP DATE: 2009-09-19
STORE DATE: 2009-09-18
Track List:
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01. Too Fake 4:07
02. 3 AM Spanish 4:09
03. Learn To Lose 3:51
04. Work 5:04
05. Song Away 3:18
06. Curse This City 4:30
07. Wanna Be Black 3:51
08. Four Holy Photos 3:31
09. Preacher 4:41
10. Put The Game Down 5:40
11. Everyone's The Same Age 2:55
Release Notes:
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ThereÆs plenty to love about Mind Chaos, the debut album from Portland guitar
heroes, Hockey. Packed with radio-friendly pop tunes, it frames a band enthrall
to folk rock, indie pop and dancefloor-friendly shakedowns. Hitch these
influences to a collection of catch-all choruses and guaranteed festival anthems
and this Portland four piece have delivered a record seamlessly built to a
summer blueprint.
The nuts and bolts of this pop ethic can be located in the bedrooms of Grubin
and bass player, Jeremy "Jerm" Reynolds. Having struck up a friendship between
lectures at the University of Redlands in 2004, the two bonded through a mutual
love of classic lyricists. Bob Dylan was the ice breaker, but there were other
unlikely pleasures too, including Talking Heads, C+C Music Factory and hip hop
titans, Wu Tang Clan.
An effervescent pop tablet, Mind Chaos fizzes with call-to-arms choruses, dirty
guitars and club friendly disco beats. There are flashes of pop rock in "Too
Fake", dance funk in "3am Spanish" and the Elton John-style, piano stomp of
"Preacher". "Song Away" is a radio-friendly smash; "Learn To Lose" carries an
infectious soul groove. Overall, itÆs an eclectic sketch of a band brimming with
ideas.