Despite figuring as only our second taster of Champ’s forthcoming self-titled debut LP, “Nothing” has set our pulse’s racing and knee’s a’knocking in anticipation.
While previous offcut “Burnt Alive” was a brash, flaming anthem, with nods to the likes of Wavves and Fidlar in plentiful supply, “Nothing” finds the San Diego band in more restrained spirit. Their embrace of frothy surf punk still lingers in the form of an arsenal of scrappy guitars and swooning harmonies, but Joel Williams is in downbeat mood, lamenting the monotony of everything being the same nowadays. He may have a point, but Champ seem to have burst onto the scene with the intention of laying waste to that notion.
Attached to the promising Fleeting Youth Records and their stunning roster of acts, it seems that 2014 is firmly clasped between Champ’s fearsome jaws. That album can’t come soon enough.
Champ’s self-titled debut LP drops on 18 February.
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