FROM RCRD LBL
“Our greatest goal”, Chew Lips’ frontwoman Tigs laughingly asserts, tongue half in cheek, “is to hear our music in the café on Eastenders”.
It is highly unusual to hear a tender young band from East London fantasise about the joys of hearing their music on Albert Square, but then again, there is nothing quite usual about Chew Lips. Not their way of making music, or their live shows, or indeed, their inception. After doing the Indie Band Shuffle, in the spring of this year vocalist Tigs and multi-instrumentalists James Watkins and Will Sanderson eventually decided to start making music together, with only one edict: not to sound like Just Another Guitar Band.
With only that in mind, the trio subsequently decamped to a friend’s studio to test the waters of the Chew Lips sound. “We had no idea what we wanted to sound like, only what we didn’t want to sound like”, James avers. “And I think, in some strange way, that helped us. We didn’t know what we were doing, so we just did everything”. The result was the organic and purely accidental evolution of their current, electronically enhanced sound. Experimenting and improvising, they wrote 10 songs right off the bat."
and what songs they are! check out their latest single 'slick' which is just brilliant!!
chew lips - slick
[if you like this song, the great folks of nme have made it their daily download]
chew lips - seven (live @ the lounge)
chew lips - salt air (levi's one to watch)
It is highly unusual to hear a tender young band from East London fantasise about the joys of hearing their music on Albert Square, but then again, there is nothing quite usual about Chew Lips. Not their way of making music, or their live shows, or indeed, their inception. After doing the Indie Band Shuffle, in the spring of this year vocalist Tigs and multi-instrumentalists James Watkins and Will Sanderson eventually decided to start making music together, with only one edict: not to sound like Just Another Guitar Band.
With only that in mind, the trio subsequently decamped to a friend’s studio to test the waters of the Chew Lips sound. “We had no idea what we wanted to sound like, only what we didn’t want to sound like”, James avers. “And I think, in some strange way, that helped us. We didn’t know what we were doing, so we just did everything”. The result was the organic and purely accidental evolution of their current, electronically enhanced sound. Experimenting and improvising, they wrote 10 songs right off the bat."
and what songs they are! check out their latest single 'slick' which is just brilliant!!
chew lips - slick
[if you like this song, the great folks of nme have made it their daily download]
chew lips - seven (live @ the lounge)
chew lips - salt air (levi's one to watch)
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