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CHEW LiPS’ ‘Do You Chew?’ video
CHEW LiPS’s comeback tracks ‘Do You Chew?’ is such a welcome return. It’s catchy and infectious as hell too, it;s been on repeat a lot around these parts.
Check out the new video for the track. Filmed in Paris, the clip is it’s beautifully shot in dreamy soft focus for a nice retro look.
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CHEW LiPS new track
A while back we got our first listen to one of the new tracks from London Indie-ElectroPop (now) two-peice CHEW LiPS on their ‘Mini Mixtape’, alongside the Um-Bongo music. Now the duo have released the entire track for our listening pleasure, and a taste of what’s to come.
‘Do You Chew?” is a initial look at a rawer, more gritty CHEW LiPS sound. Pulsating and sexy, the new track drops some of the Pop sheen the band had acquired by the time their début album ‘Unicorn’ had dropped and returns to the more live, garage ElectroPop sound of the first few demos. It’s actually not as moody as we had gathered from it’s mixtape appearance, in full it’s got a nice groove, with almost an old school Hip Hop swing, layered with buzzing and grinding synths and Tigs’ playful vocals. Definitely a welcome return for these guys, hopefully they’ll be going on the road soon so we can catch more of their legendary live shows.
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CHEW LiPS’ ‘Mini Mixtape Vol. 1’ (yes, that’s a new CHEW LiPS track!)
CHEW LiPS – Mini Mixtape Vol. 1 = The awesome CHEW LiPS are hinting at their return with this ten minute minimix. It;s an eclectic selection of tune, but of particular interest here is the second from last track (right before the Um Bongo ad music!) is a brand new CHEW LiPS track, ‘Do You Chew’! And pretty special it is to, moody and imposing.
♫ CHEW LiPS – Mini Mixtape Vol. 1
The tracklist:
01. Caramba – Fedora/Kia Ora
02. M.I.A. – Bad Girls
03. Chris Brown (Feat. Lil Wayne & Busta Rhymes) – Look At Me Now
04. Prince – I Would Die 4 U
05. LV (Feat. Joshua Idehen) – Northern Line
06. Beck – Get Real Paid
07. Carlos D’Alessio – Tika Tika Walk
08. CHEW LiPS – Do You Chew?
09. Andre Jacquemin – Um Bongo, Um Bongo (They Drink It In The Congo)
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Gwaiiu (ex-of CHEW LiPS) reMixes Thomas Tantrum
Thomas Tantrum are a Southampton based Indie-Pop outfit who’s new single, ‘Hot Hot Summer’, has been reMixed by Gwaiiu.
Gwaiiu is none other than Will Sanderson, ex member of CHEW LiPS, who applies his ElectroPop skills to the track to create an awesome mid-tempo head nodder. Driven by electronic burbling and chirping and a solid beat and more than a little Dubstep influence. It’s actually like a Dubstep early Gary Numan track with female vocals. Interesting stuff!
Check it out:
♫ Thomas Tantrum – Hot Hot Summer (Gwaiiu reMix)
‘Hot Hot Summer’ is 5th june.
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New CHEW LiPS track!!!
Oh CHEW LiPS, how you’ve been missed! Sometimes it takes reconnecting with a thing it realise how much it was missed.
And this new demo CHEW LiPS have just dropped have really made me realise how much I have missed them. Or, to put it a better way, made me remember what it is about them I love so much. I have missed the stripped down production that still manages to sound huge, missed the layers of toy-town synths, missed Tigs’ sassy, soulful vocals that bring an instant warmth to the tracks and missed the sing-along choruses.
Their second album is still a long time coming, but if this demo is anything to go by, it has everything I have missed by the bucket load.
CHEW LiPS are looking to release their second album late this year.
CHEW LiPS’ X-Mas present to you
CHEW LiPS have had an amazing year.
Right at the start of 2010 their début album was released and it’s been twelve months of promotion and gigging since, and I can vouch for that having seen their awesome live show a few times this year myself.
As an X-Mas present to their fans for making their 2010 what it was Tigs and the guys have recorded a special X-Mas song for free. ‘When You Wake Up’ is one of the more X-Massy X-Mas songs I’ve heard this year, it’s all sleigh bells, plucked strings and fireside imagery. I reckon if they had released this for money it would have had a shot at X-Mas number one!
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♫ CHEW LiPS – When You Wake Up
CHEW LiPS are looking to release their second album late next year.
CHEW LiPS reMix Hot Chip, Bernard Sumner & Hot City’s Converse track
CHEW LiPS are on a reMix roll!
Remember that team-up between Hot Chip and New Order’s Bernard Sumner and Hot City, to release a track for Converse’s collaborative series we wrote about a while back?
Well, now not only has it gone and got itself a video but also an amazing, analog bass pounding, reMix courtesy of CHEW LiPS. In the end result you can hear bits of New Order, bits of Hot Chip and bits of CHEW LiPS, it’s an odd mix, but very cool.
Check the video and the reMix below.
♫ Hot Chip, Bernard Sumner & Hot City – Didn’t Know What Love Was (CHEW LiPS reMix)
Check the Converse site for more collaborations.
Hot Chip, Bernard Sumner & Hot City @ Converse
CHEW LiPS reMix The Brute Chorus
East London’s The Brute Chorus have got their bestest mates and electronic rumors faves CHEW LiPS to favour them with a reMix of their new single ‘Heaven’.
It a cool reMix, it’s got CHEW LiPS trademark blippy synth sound but also this really nice shuffling beat that is unexpected, but welcome, with the music. I’d actually like to hear more of vocalist James Steel working in electronic music as his voice and the synths makes for an interesting and unique combination.
♫ The Brute Chorus – Heaven (CHEW LiPS reMix)
‘Heaven’ is released 6th September with their self titled album coming a little later and featuring guest vocals from Tigs.
Limited edition New Young Pony Club/Topman CTRL T-Shirt competition winners!
Congratulations to Twitter users @SallyTraffic and @HoxtonTit, they’ve won our competition in association with CHEW LiPS and Topman CTRL. Limited edition T-Shirts designed by Tigs herself are on it’s way to them!
Check out http://www.topmanctrl.com for news of the forthcoming Controllers tour.
CHEW LiPS Topman CTRL show update
Were still in the thick of our CHEW LiPS competition, in association with Topman CTRL, to win a limited edition T-shirt designed by the Tigs herself! There’s still a week to enter, find the info here.
As part of their stint as Topman controllers CHEW LiPS also hand picked the line up for a very special gig at the Cardiff Arts Institute, that was supposed to be on 16th April.
Well…certain Icelandic volcanoes had other ideas!
Stuck in New York and desperate to get to Cardiff (now there’s a movie I would go and see!) the band had to regretfully cancel the gig leaving troopers Party Horse to soldier on alone.
But have no fear ticket holders! The show has been rescheduled and tickets previously purchased will still be valid.
The new date is Wednesday 9th June at the Cardiff Arts Centre (support acts to be confirmed).
The good news is that gives you time to save up for that fancy hat you wanted to wear! Also, if you win a T-shirt in our competition it has time to arrive in the post so you can wear it with pride!
Maybe sometimes volcanoes are a blessing in disguise!
CHEW LiPS début album, ‘Unicorn’, and the current single ‘Karen’ are out now.
