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I am not even going to attempt to write about what is turning out to be the biggest news in the the music industry at the moment, but if by some chance you have not heard about Radiohead's new album, you can read about it here.

Otherwise...



There are experimental bands, and there are pop bands. Sometimes they are mushed together and make super-band-gravy. Chin Up Chin Up are a band from Chicago that fit the aforementioned description well and they also write songs that feel as if they've been with me all of my life. Kind of like a psychedelically colored blanket that your aunt made you when you were little that you loved, then lost. Lo and behold years later when you discover that oddly colored blanket again you delightfully regain some odd childish part of you that was always there but you had somehow forgotten about. A bit like that.
Lead singer Jeremy Bolen's voice is a bit raspy, soulful and delightfully off kilter and often he is backed by the rest of the band in mantra like sing-alongs. The lyrics and song titles are always clever and witty which is sometimes how their music sounds. Sometimes. The guitars and keyboard parts shift and stutter into each other but always groove and are always fun.

Here is a song from their most recent album, This Harness Can't Ride Anything and one from We Should Never Have Lived Like We Were Skyskrapers.

Chin Up Chin Up-This Harness Can't Ride Anything
Chin Up Chin Up-Why is My Sleeping Bag A Ghetto Muppet