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TRACKS:
ON WARMER MUSIC 3:11
ALL MY KIN 4:10
IT'S ALRIGHT, YOU'RE O.K. (4:06)
THE MUTABLE MERCURY (3:43)
THE TOWN CRUSHER (2:45)
THE UNTHINKABLE IS TRUE (3:40)
RIVER HIGH (4:01)
EVERY IS A GOOD TRIP (1:42)
DO GO ON (5:22)
PRIVILEGED & IMPOTENT (2:55)
OH DEAR FRIENDS (4:00)
AN AMATEUR THIEF (1:46)
IN OUR TIME (2:21)
MORLEY TIMMONS (3:12)
THE O.T.S. (3:39)
RIP OFF THE GIFT (1:56)
THE LAST GOOD TIME (4:15)
Winter is a time for sleep, then spring is a wake-up call to insomnia.
Witness the all night shouts on "Set You Free", the second full-length by
Washington, DC's Chisel. One of the trio's first fans was the
romantic
lyricist Johnny Keats. "Where are the songs of Spring?" he asked, as the
dying batteries in his portable CD player slowed the sounds of "Set You
Free" to a wobbly spin. Realizing he wasn't prepared with fresh
Eveready's, Keats considered his dilemma: "Think not of them, thou hast
thy music too." He gamely attempted to listen to the sounds of his heart,
bird's chirping, wind song and the rhythmic click of heels on
cobble-stone. "Ah, screw it", he pronounced and marched over to CVS for
some alkaline. He wanted his Chisel.
As an avid reader of Ye Olde Melody Maker, Keats was tipped early to
Chisel's mod-ified pop via the mini-album Nothing New, the
full-length 8 a.m. All Day, and on numerous singles. But it wasn't until
"Set You Free" that he noticed the threesome's continuous, but subtle and
contiguous, change. Gone was the purely Old Blighty sound, though Keats
could still surrender to the beasts of "The Unthinkable is True," "The
O.T.S.," and "Morely Timmons." Chisel's refined sound took Keats
into places of romance on "In Our Time", provided energetic blasts of life
on "It's Alright, You're O.K.," and opened his increasingly consumptive
lungs with the sweet soul crooning on "River High." "Was it a vision, or a
waking dream?" wrote Keats after hearing the album. And you will too.
Shake off the winter and let Chisel "Set You Free."