Chief - The Minute I Saw It
It's that time of year when you get up for work in the dark, only to return home in the dark. Your face is permanently feeling the sting of frosty air and every venture outside the house is dicing with the death of your dignity as we all start falling over in public thanks to icy pavements. What you need is a little reprieve. A little shred of comfort and warmth. If you've run out of whiskey, we suggest you turn to Chief's latest single, 'The Minute I Saw It' instead.
Being a band from LA it feels awful trite to go down the whole 'sun-soaked West-coast sound' route of description. But sometimes there just ain't no avoiding the obvious. Sort of like having to describe an orange. This track, freshly squeezed from their debut album 'Modern Rituals' really is that drive down a beach front in an open-top car that most of us has never actually had but can imagine would be just lovely. In somewhere like California that is. Not Blackpool. Golden tones, a beautiful haze of vocal harmonies and rich melodic guitar make for a very pleasant track for your chilly little ears.
It's little bit old holiday photograph nostalgia and some Villagers-esque beat-driven grandeur, all pebble-dashed with a dose of Here We Go Magic. It's wistful but not whiny and leaves a very good impression. A good sign of things to come from the breezy American four-piece.