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Chime School's self-titled debut album on Slumberland Records
Colourful photograph of Andy Pastalaniec of Chime School, taken in a wooden-framed convex mirror in the woods showing the reflection of Pastalaniec with a blonde Rickenbacker guitar, fender amp and an old camera

Chime School - Chime School

SLUMBERLAND RECORDS

Chime School is the project of San Francisco musician Andy Pastalaniec. Endlessly charmed by '80s indie and its '60s forebearers (and any record with a 12-string guitar), Andy cut his teeth as a drummer with Sumberland Records labelmate Odd Hope in their early group Pink Films; later with shoegazers Cruel Summer, and currently with indiepop outfit Seablite. But it wasn't until he was gifted a cassette four-track portastudio "almost as a dare," that he came out from behind the kit to write and record his own material. 

Aptly named for its autodidact roots, Chime School pays homage to the formative jangle of The Byrds by way of early Primal Scream and The Springfields; the production and pop sensibility of the Biff Bang Pow and The Razorcuts; and the spirit of great singles labels like Creation, Postcard and Sarah. With more than just a nostalgic nod to wistful era, it would be all too easy to label Chime School as a C86 jangle-facsimile, but it's Pastalaniec's talent for writing perfectly-biting nonchalant-pop gems that makes the record sound fresh and relevant in spite of its stylishly bygone infatuations. 

 

TRACKLIST: 
  1. Wait Your Turn 
  2. Taking Time To Tell You 
  3. Dead Saturdays 
  4. Fixing Motorcycles 
  5. Anywhere But Here 
  6. Radical Leisure 
  7. Get A Bike 
  8. Gone Too Fast 
  9. It's True 
  10. Calling In Sick 

 

  • US import 
  • Limited first-pressing of LP on blue vinyl available exclusively from independent stores 
  • LP housed in reverse-board jacket and contains download coupon 
  • CD housed in gatefold card jacket with 3mm spine 

 

 

 

also available on Slumberland Records: 
The Aislers Set - Terrible Things Happen   LP | CD 
The Aislers Set - The Last Match   LP | CD 
Hood - Cabled Linear Traction   CD 
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart   LP 
Peel Dream Magazine - Modern Meta Physic   LP | CD 
Papercuts - Parallel Universe Blues   LP | CD 
The Umbrellas - The Umbrellas   LP | CD 
Artsick - Fingers Crossed   LP | CD 
Kids On A Crime Spree - Fall In Love Not In Line   LP | CD 
Jeanines - Don't Wait For A Sign   CD 

 

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