Getting better. We all want that. Chips for the Poor have done it, they got better.
It is with great relief to report that the new 7’’ titled ‘I am a warrior’ brings Chips for the Poor into a more balanced place, with a developed sound, that takes some of the heat off the frantic lyrical poetry, spat out in 2005’s previous release, ‘LSD Who Said That’.
Musically menacing, it takes frantic to the edge of conceptual and borrows some New York Noise and Manchester Verve. However, your not gonna like Chips for the Poor unless you agree to engage with the narrative madness that remains the driving force of the sound. This is none more evident than on B-Sides ‘Weather Channel’ and ‘C*ck, C*nt, P*nis, T*ny Blair, T*na Turner’, which are far less stomach able than the titled track.
But, I guess you can’t have your chips and eat them. At least you got Chips.
but your kids are gonna love it!