Hockey are from Portland, but they sure sound like they're from New York. Well, they sound like a mix of popular New York sounds from the last decade-- like the. Hockey: Mind Chaos 3 / 5 stars (Capitol). Mind Chaos is the product of a guitar band who occasionally let their bassist and. Album reviews Most viewed. Mind Chaos is a debut littered with hit songs. In fact, the album was already pretty damn good when Portland-based foursome Hockey initially self-released.

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Oct 01, 2009 'Mind Chaos' was originally self released last year but EMI/Capital jumped on board to give this a well deserved. Tags: Hockey, Mind Chaos, review.

I have lately discovered this band and what I have to say is that everything in this album is in place. Songs are catchy, voice is fine, I have lately discovered this band and what I have to say is that everything in this album is in place. Songs are catchy, voice is fine, guitar solos, piano parts, electronic stuff etc, etc.

Opening 'Too Fake' really introduces you into the dance-hip-hop-rock-n-roll style of the album. Later the songs are kept in the same climate but they aren't boring in any way. Everyone has got something special, and I can see sth good about every song, even those, that I'm not crazy about like 'Work'. Myself I really like the way the lyrics are somehow rapped along the guitars where also a lot of pressure is put on the bass. Album ends with slow 'Everyone's The Same Age' which is for sure the best closer I've ever heard.

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Edward Bernays Engineering Of Consent Pdf Viewer. Judging bands on the way they look: we all do it. I remember the first time I saw Hockey. It was on some TV station in a crowded living room where I could barely hear the music, but what I could make out was a group of fashionably dressed young men, one of whom was wearing a headband. Based purely on headgear, my conclusion there and then was that they were opportunistic MGMT copyists. Later, however, more promising rumours started to filter through: they sounded like the The Strokes produced by James Murphy; they'd completed tours with Friendly Fires and Passion Pit; they'd received words of praise from Dave Allen of Gang of Four and had even recorded with former Talking Head/Modern Lover Jerry Harrison.

It would of course be equally as misguided to judge a band purely on the quality of their various associates. Hockey are (as you would most likely expect) not trailblazers in the mould of Gang of Four or Talking Heads, although they bear the influence of both bands. Neither are they just talentless, opportunistic fashionistas. To put it in the simplest terms, Hockey are a decent Eighties indebted guitar-pop band; nothing more, nothing less. While it may not be true that every track on Mind Chaos is a potential single, it does come pretty close with the already lifted tracks particular standouts. 'Too Fake's verses display Hockey's LCD-informed dance-rock influence as all distorted bass riffage, lithe programmed percussion and pounding acoustic drums.

However, the song is really all about the swaggering chorus, with frontman Ben Grubin boasting about having 'Too much soul for the world' amidst crunching guitar and glistening synth. Startlingly original it isn't, but bloody catchy it is. The buoyantly funky 'Learn to Lose' throws some pretty standard punk-funk shapes, but crafts a fantastic pop song out of it sounding like a more blustery version of Hot Hot Heat circa- Elevator. Recent single 'Song Away' initially sounds like something of an art-rock callout with its driving new wave guitars which again recall Talking Heads (this time 'Wild Wild Life') and its opening line ( 'Make me a deal') a reference to Roxy Music's 'Virginia Plain'. The punchy rhythms and wordy verses give way to an anthemic optimism in the chorus, which is oddly stirring in its assertion that 'tomorrow's just a song away'. It is also the song in which Hockey most clearly nail their colours to the mast with Grubin's declaration that he just wants to 'write a truthful song over an Eighties groove'. Naturally not every song on the album sustains the high standard of power-pop infectiousness and there are moments where Hockey sound overstretched.