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Chapterhouse - Blood Music
Shoegaze also-rans; hold yourself back!
In the sleevenotes for this reissue of Chapterhouse’s 1993 second album, devotee Ulrich Schnauss bemoans the fact that “while Primal Scream’s Screamadelica had been released to great critical acclaim just two years earlier, the conceptually similar but more refined Chapterhouse album was largely overlooked”. Well, there’s an easy explanation for that, if you replace “conceptually similar” with “poor and patchy approximation of”, and “more reined” with “less exciting”, and… you get the idea.
Pleasantly chilled, but dangerously close to shoegaze parody, despite game attempts at replicating Gillespie and Weatherall’s blessed-out soundscapes on Mesmerise with its listless tambourine and Age, there’s no Higher Than The Sun on here. Blood Music remains mired in a kind of hippy dippy MDMA miasma, afflicted by the genre’s typical chinless poshboy vocals, while other tracks such as Frost are pretty standard indie-rock fare. In truth, they’re closer to The Soup Dragons than the Scream Team.
Cherry Red | CDM RED3 47
Reviewed by Emily Mackay
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