Hockey - Mind Chaos (2009)

Genre : Indie,Rock,New-Wave,Alternative,Electronica GOOD!
Myspace
Tracklist

01. Too Fake 4:07
02. 3 AM Spanish 4:09
03. Learn To Lose 3:51
04. Work 5:04
05. Song Away 3:18
06. Curse This City 4:30
07. Wanna Be Black 3:51
08. Four Holy Photos 3:31
09. Preacher 4:41
10. Put The Game Down 5:40
11. Everyone's The Same Age 2:55

Theres plenty to love about Mind Chaos, the debut album from Portland guitar heroes, Hockey. Packed with radio-friendly pop tunes, it frames a band enthrall to folk rock, indie pop and dancefloor-friendly shakedowns. Hitch these influences to a collection of catch-all choruses and guaranteed festival anthems and this Portland four piece have delivered a record seamlessly built to a summer blueprint.

The nuts and bolts of this pop ethic can be located in the bedrooms of Grubin and bass player, Jeremy "Jerm" Reynolds. Having struck up a friendship between lectures at the University of Redlands in 2004, the two bonded through a mutual love of classic lyricists. Bob Dylan was the ice breaker, but there were other unlikely pleasures too, including Talking Heads, C+C Music Factory and hip hop titans, Wu Tang Clan.

An effervescent pop tablet, Mind Chaos fizzes with call-to-arms choruses, dirty guitars and club friendly disco beats. There are flashes of pop rock in "Too Fake", dance funk in "3am Spanish" and the Elton John-style, piano stomp of "Preacher". "Song Away" is a radio-friendly smash; "Learn To Lose" carries an infectious soul groove. Overall, its an eclectic sketch of a band brimming with ideas.