The Chap - Ham
A wildly eclectic piece of contemporary pop music art, Ham recalls the energy and playfulness of post punks Devo or The Flying Lizards, as well as more contemporary almost electro-clash influences. Tracks like ‘Woop’ (bendy jazz chords and spoken word lyrics), ‘Auto Where To’ (a futuristic choral road song) and ‘Arizona’ point to a similar creative well that Khonnor may be drawing from; they are unusual and spacious tracks that draw you into the cinematic mid-tempo middle of the album. Ham was home-recorded and sounds great – equal parts fuzz, synth and subtlety. It is a weird pop album that effectively avoids pigeonholing. Like LCD Soundsystem, The Chap are plundering pop music’s collective memory to find their way into the future. They seem to be making it up as they go along, and that is much of their charm.
