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Minimum Chips - Goodbye (video - 21MB)
Chances are, if you hear 'underrated' and 'Australian band' in the same sentence, someone will be talking about ex-Brisbane, now Melbourne band Minimum Chips. This video for their track 'Goodbye' from their recently released debut full-length album Kitchen Tea Thankyou is a bit of a Spiked Candy exclusive, I believe, hot off the reel (well, lukewarm - there was a bit of a delay due to my bloggers' block, sorry). It was filmed around Melbourne by the talented duo of Megan Voevodin and Philippa Knack, and I think you'll agree the Super 8 format beautifully suits the gentle feel of the tune. (This would have been a good song for the 'Lazy Sunday' category, but my Sunday was a little too lazy to get it up in time).
This quote from the Age's review of Kitchen Tea Thankyou nicely sums up the album:
A dozen pieces of gently psychedelic electronica variously conjure up the digital glaze of a Japanese metropolis or the romantic haze of 1960s Paris. This is visionary, trippy and playful music, distinguished by the breathy, austere voice of Nicole Thibault.
Links
Minimum Chips official site
Trifekta Records
The SBS Whatever Sessions - Minimum Chips
Youtube link for 'Goodbye' video
(for readers who can't download large files - or watch below)
Wonderful!Reminds me of very happy times and somehow Stereolab! :)
I agree with Bruno here, but I do get a melancholy feeling too. No use
giving the other reference I associate this with (an American duo), because
I simply can't remember the name. It's terrible when one's memory does
that...
Yes, great to see a new post!
very pretty!
Welcome back!
Good to see you back and I hope you're feeling much better now.
All The Best,
BAZ
Thanks to everyone for their well-wishes. I wish I could say I was better,
but it's not really the case. However, this past month was particularly bad
and I'd run out of steam to keep the blog up. We'll see it goes from now. I
have a lot of visual/head symptoms that can make it hard.
Thanks for this.
Yes very generous indeed, especially considering the album didn't come out
too long ago. :)
So there's a Sleepy Township connection here... I've an out-of-place and
possibly forward question Spiked Candy: you don't happen to have Sleepy
Township's first album (Set sails - ?)? I've heard they weren't happy with
this album, but still it's the one record missing in my collection - and
Sleepy Township are one of my favourite groups with regards to "sweet and
sour, ramshackle" pop (can't describe the musc, but I love them). I'd take
a long and hard look in my music collection and try my best to make it
worthwhile for you if we could set up a swap here, if it's possible. Can't
find this record anywhere - and this is fairly high up on my list of things
that bug me.
Melancholy, yes...
The american duo that a previous commentor was hoping for was, I believe,
Pinback, the author of some of the most brilliant melancholic anthems of
the last 5 years!
thanks d!
Yes, I've seen the Set sail album at Tonevendor - I used to buy many
records from them. But it's been more than ten years since I last had a
turntable and I move around to much to get a new one, so for this and space
reasons I stick to cds. It's also why I've lost out on some magnificent pop
releases (such as the sublime Metro 7-inch for instance - I've a long list
of this sort of music worries). I know my attitude is wholly wrong - I
count the goodies I don't have much more than the ones I have. Still
haven't given up on Sleepy Township though :)
Everybody said it already, but welcome back! Sorry to hear you're not well
yet, though. Do what you feel like and what your energy allows. Hang in
there!
Well this proves I'm a geek because I was just visiting old territories
(indiepages.com) and one thing led to another and I remembered Minimum
Chips reminded me of an act I couldn't remember the name of when I wrote a
comment here - and all of a sudden I did: Parker and Lily!