Since taking the Viennese music scene by storm with their debut `Trouble' (2022) and the follow-up album `Lightning Trails' (2023), jangle-pop maestros Laundromat Chicks havethe jangle-pop maestros Laundromat Chicks have established themselves in that rare musical terrain where humour, exuberance and vulnerability intersect. From adolescent power-pop anthems to crunchy jangle-pop, Laundromat Chicks are the kind of band that remind you of all your favourite bands at once. On their album `Sometimes Possessed' (Siluh Records), the band expands their sound pal …
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Since taking the Viennese music scene by storm with their debut `Trouble' (2022) and the follow-up album `Lightning Trails' (2023), jangle-pop maestros Laundromat Chicks havethe jangle-pop maestros Laundromat Chicks have established themselves in that rare musical terrain where humour, exuberance and vulnerability intersect. From adolescent power-pop anthems to crunchy jangle-pop, Laundromat Chicks are the kind of band that remind you of all your favourite bands at once. On their album `Sometimes Possessed' (Siluh Records), the band expands their sound palette. Mastermind Tobias Hammermüller takes his songwriting in new directions, alternating the usual punchy guitar anthems with more abstract, softer-sounding musical ideas.The quartet, consisting of Hammermüller (vocals/guitar), Theresa Strohmer (guitar/vocals), Felix Schnabl (drums) and Lena Pöttinger (bass), has been very productive right from the start - both in Laundromat Chicks and in other projects. Strohmer and Pöttinger also play in the garage pop band Topsy Turvy, while Schnabl has his own 60s garage punk project Salamirecorder and plays drums and sings in the psych rock group Telebrains. Laundromat Chicks' first two releases on Siluh Records, are a treasure trove of guitar pop to be discovered, for example, the single "You're on the Line" is as wittily impenetrable as any adolescent powerpop anthem this side of Buzzcocks and The Undertones, while "Nobody Believes Me" combines the icy fatalism of Joy Division with the crunchy jangle of The Babies and Girls. There's no question that in just 20 minutes, the Laundromat Chicks can be a band that reminds you of all your favourite bands at once, but can also take you into new, exciting realms at the same time.On Sometimes Possessed expands those special territories considerably: the usual 20 minutes now stretches into an inspired 30-minute fever dream. In order for the feelings to unfold, the starting point of the album had to come from somewhere remote or almost forgotten. The result is Laundromat Chicks' heat-distorted interpretation of the 60s ballad "This Strange Effect" written by Ray Davies, a dizzying duet performed by singer Hammermüller with guitarist Theresa Strohmer as a duet
1. THIS STRANGE EFFECT
2. SOMETIMES POSSESSED
3. CAMERON
4. HOW DO YOU KNOW
5. SUNBURN
6. SECRETS
7. CATCH IT
8. TIME ZONES
9. SPIDERS INSIDE YOU
10. RUINS
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