Stream "My Band is a Computer", the new album-slash-career retrospective from CHUCK

07 September 2016, 13:00 | Written by Andrew Hannah

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Friday sees the unveiling of My Band is a Computer, a sort of collection/career retrospective/compilation from CHUCK, put together from the various self-released records the New York based musician has made since 2009.

The album is the first to be released through Audio Antihero Records' (Frog, Cloud, Benjamin Shaw) new imprint Old Money, and is a gateway into the world of the multi-instrumentalist CHUCK.

With what you might call a divisive voice, CHUCK makes bedroom pop, fractured electronica and, more often than not, utterly charming indie-pop; he tells us of the forgotten people of New York City, the dead end jobs, the bottomless hopelessness of keeping a dying relationship alive....but also the romance of a night spent on a rooftop, or sleeping on a beach, or the chase for one last drink at one last bar.

Of his career retrospective before the age of thirty, CHUCK - Charles Griffin Gibson - tells us "My Band is a Computer is a collection of 13 tracks plucked from all the records I've put out since 2009. To say that this is surreal for me is an undersell. I never expected anyone outside of my friends and family to be interested in these songs. I've always made music as a fun hobby, not as a means for fame or fortune or whatever. It's more like my version of scrapbooking. I'm happy to just make it and have it around on the coffee table as a reminder of the places I've been and people I've known. So when Audio Antihero approached me to put together a compilation in an effort to introduce a new audience to my stuff, I was pretty surprised and humbled. I'm glad to present this collection of my music to you, and I hope you enjoy it for what it is. A bunch of ragged, naked, sometimes annoying songs about my life."

Dive in below.