Lick Your Ticket
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Artist: Chikinki
Label: Umvd Import
Category: Music
Average customer rating:
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 602498666029
EAN: 0602498666029
ASIN: B00024X0G0
Release Date: 2004-07-20 |
Lick Your Ticket
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Tracks:
- Assassinator 13
- Ether Radio
- Drink
- Hate TV
- Staple Nation
- All Eyes
- Scissors Paper Stone [#]
- To Sacrifice a Child
- Bombs [#]
- Like It or Leave It [#]
- Time
- Forever
Customer Reviews:
Ticket to Ride.......2004-08-29
Whether you want to admit it or not post-punk has dominated 2004. The Futureheads, TV on The Radio and !!! just to name a few and, yes Chikinki is part of this musical movement.
Chikinki are not just copyist though. In fact I would say they are innovators as synthesizers, loops and sensor pads dominate their sound.
Saying that the band do come from Bristol, which always had a tradition of using electronic instruments merged with traditional ones.
There is good stuff here and melodies aplenty. `Ether Radio' could easily be a hit single in a parallel universe. Same with `Hate TV', oh and practically half the rest of the album. Each and every song is a blustery streak of manic energy that rushes through your cranium and snuggles itself into your brain.
Another aspect of this album is the way it sounds different with every listen. I have had this album in my stereo for days and I'm STILL discovering something new and questioning it. Like, for example, are those violins crossed with a Morricone backdrop with crunchy guitars on `Staple Diet'? and so on.
In a year of great debuts `Lick your Ticket' is another to join this ever growing list and its a clear sign that British music is gaining it's feet again.
My Album of the Year.......2004-07-17
This is the best album I've heared this year. I saw them live last September and the CD doesn't dissapoint. About as original as a band can be these days . They mix electro pop and guitar rock in a way that no guitar fanatic can disslike.
Ticketlicking Good!.......2004-06-27
This is an awesome debut album by a fantastic electro-indie five piece from Bristol, England. I am lucky enough to have seen them live several times , and this is a great recorded representation, capturing their energy perfectly- the beauty of Chikinki is in their clever combination of rocking riffs and futuristic synths and the singer's androgenous vocals complete the unusual mix, creating what I think is the sexiest, slickest poprock the world has heard for a long time.
Music Album:
- Your Favorite Music ~ Clem Snide
- Taking Off/The Innes Book of Records ~ Neil Innes
- Beast of Dreams ~ Pain Teens
- Duct Tape Life ~ Billy Hector Band
- Lake - Greatest Hits ~ Lake
- Golden Lights: Special Edition ~ Twinkle
- I Didn't Get Where I Am ~ Chris Difford
- My Generation Landslide ~ Died Pretty
- John B. Sebastian ~ John Sebastian
- Slowreader
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Sinatraland ~ Patrick Williams
Betcha ~ Stanley Turrentine
Woman's Intuition ~ Betty O'Hara
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Family Man ~ Jaki Byard
The Garden of Delight ~ John Lewis
Maktarnash / Wala Fi El-Amsal [IMPORT] ~ Warda
My Swinging World ~ Wolfgang Sauer
Expresso 2222 ~ Gilberto Gil
Best of Brazil ~ Enrico Mirando & His Orchestra