Chipper Jones - Two Rooms EP
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| Chipper Jones - Two Rooms EP |
Ready for something a bit
different? Well sit back and let Chipper Jones wash over you. The Texas duo
have a 10 track EP (I'm letting this one slide for reasons I can't explain)
which starts with the organ chillout of 'Sketch 1: Chautauqua' leading in to
'Scout (live)' which immediately picks up the pace as staccato guitars dance
with clicky percussion and crazy little electro bleeps. 'Sketch 2: Rhombus' is
up next and those perky little guitars keep coming like Dutch Uncles' younger
brother without the daily dose of Ritalin. The guitars on 'Riverburn (live)'
are, frankly, mental but in the best kinda way while 'Sketch Three: Movements'
is a more mellow affair that reminds me of the criminally underrated Ions In
the Ether.
This is experimental,
instrumental stuff created by two guys who clearly have a connection on a
creative level but like guys making each other laugh in bars, the joke is never
as funny when explained to another and the badly recorded spoken word of 'Wild
Senna' is a great example of this. 'Sketch Four: Warm' is a summery afternoon
of rippling keys leading in to 'Sketch Five: Two Rooms', a real dawn chorus of
a melody played on a piano with lashings of delay. Now, this might lose
something in translation but the next song up is 'Amarillo' (no, not that one)
which drifts out of the speakers like dusk in the Grand Canyon before the final
track, 'Headrush', brings back those rippling guitars that behave like flitting
bugs. The reason I can forgive a 10 track collection being termed an EP is that
half the tracks are like long intros to the other half but it works incredibly
well and creates sumptuous sound scapes to die for.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/chipperjonesband?fref=ts
Listen/Download: http://chipperjones.bandcamp.com/album/two-rooms-ep