When it came to the choice of the first release by the Australian part of the American ZIP label, there wasn’t much of a dilemma because The Chevelles earned their place on the Aussie power-pop field with a bunch of great records in the past eight years.
As it often happens with the nationally most outstanding individuals, they soon became interesting on the other side of the border/ocean and it happened to this band after releasing only one album, Gigantic in 1993. Which became an independent bestseller all over Europe, that lead to a pair of (different) compilation releases in USA and Brazil (!) in the last two years.
The Sun Bleached EP is what you could call a “brief report” of the Chevelles’ career with very effective introductory characteristics for the uninformed.
Their long and winding road leads us from power-pop prototypes like Sonic and Time And Time Again with an evident Big Star retrospect through Norman Blake’s telescope and some irresistible “ooohs” in all the right places, through the harmonised ’60s garage-punk sounds to an imaginative variation on the glam-thematics combined with McGuinnish distorted passages.
And in the end, as a proof of the Chevelles’ wittiness and authencity, comes an unexpected mainstream cover of the Air Supply’s hit Lost In Love.
As was the case until now, the next label as well as it’s geographic coordinates, will remain unknown until the last moment in their run for the piece of cake which is in ZIP‘s hands now, and what we’re left with is the sweet taste in our ears!
[Released by ZIP 2000]
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