Chomp (album)
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Chomp | ||||
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Released | 1983 | |||
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Label | DB Records | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Robert Christgau | A-[3] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
Pitchfork | 7.7/10[5] |
PopMatters | 8/10[6] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [7] |
Chomp is the second studio album by Athens, Georgia band Pylon, released in 1983.[8][9][10] It was re-released in 2009 via DFA Records.[11]
Critical reception
Trouser Press called the album "more ambitious in scope" than the debut, writing that it "incorporates a psychedelic drone in spots."[1] The Stranger deemed Chomp an "essential [record] of angsty new wave and piquant post-punk."[11]
Track listing
Side A
- "K" – 4:33
- "Yo-Yo" – 4:14
- "Beep" – 3:24
- "Italian Movie Theme" – 2:00
- "Crazy" – 3:13
- "M-Train" – 3:46
Side B
- "Buzz" – 2:59
- "No Clocks" – 2:58
- "Reptiles" – 3:56
- "Spider" – 3:54
- "Gyrate" – 4:06
- "Altitude" – 3:19
Chomp More (2009 reissue – DFA – DFA2220CD)
- "K" – 4:33
- "Yo-Yo" – 4:14
- "Beep" – 3:24
- "Italian Movie Theme" – 2:00
- "Crazy" – 3:13
- "M-Train" – 3:46
- "Buzz" – 2:59
- "No Clocks" – 2:58
- "Reptiles" – 3:56
- "Spider" – 3:54
- "Gyrate" – 4:06
- "Altitude" – 3:19
- "Crazy" (Original) – 3:12
- "Yo-Yo" (Pylon Mix) – 5:53
- "Gyrate" (Pylon Mix) – 4:57
- "Four Minutes" – 6:04
Track 16 is the B-side of "Beep"/"Altitude" single.
Personnel
- Michael Lachowski – bass
- Curtis Crowe – drums
- Randy Bewley – guitar
- Vanessa Ellison – vocals
References
- ^ a b "Pylon". Trouser Press. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ AllMusic review
- ^ "Robert Christgau: CG: Pylon". www.robertchristgau.com.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 6: MUZE. p. 700.
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: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ "Pylon: Chomp More". Pitchfork.
- ^ "Pylon: Chomp More". PopMatters. February 1, 2010.
- ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 568.
- ^ Brown, Rodger Lyle (July 28, 2016). "Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids who Rocked Athens, Georgia". University of Georgia Press – via Google Books.
- ^ "Review: Pylon, 'Live'". Spin. July 20, 2016.
- ^ Geurts, Jimmy. "Vanessa Briscoe Hay on Pylon history, R.E.M. and B-52's before playing Sarasota Film Festival". Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
- ^ a b "Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The Moodily Melodic "Messenger" by New-Wave Luminaries Pylon Reenactment Society". The Stranger.