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Songs on current rotation #21

Zhu - Save Me

Sade - Kiss of Life (Kaytranada Edit)

L’Imperatrice - Erreur 404

Naji - Fallen

MMZ - S Line

CHINAH - Real Thing?

Lomepal - 1000ºC

Oceanvs Orientalis - Tarlabasi (Be Svendsen Remix)

Khruangbin - August 10

Chiara Noriko ft Skye Chai - Anything

Damso - Fais-moi un Vie

Wafia - I’m Good

Fabz Pi - Feel Alive

ZHU - Guilty Love

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CHINAH - Anyone (LP) - 2018 Record of the Year Review

Anyone (LP) CHINAH Released: November 9th, 2018 / No3 Words: Peter Quincy Ng

When the Denmark trio first dropped their stunning debut with 2016's "When the Lights Go Out", it was through vocalist Fine Glindvad's quiet exasperation and sobering heartbreak that CHINAH's hybrid R&B took form. Beating with its clunky Orientalism and the vast architecture of its synthesizer sustain, their debut EP was atmospheric without eschewing the catchy beat-driven structure of a modern electro-pop sensibility. Fast forward to 2018, and we see the maturation of CHINAH's form in their debut LP "Anyone", which at first glance is a complete one-eighty degrees from their 2016 breakthrough. 

From a sulky vulnerability to the absolutely brazen, Fine's legato is cut into a sharp, poignant cold on their latest record. Comparable to the trajectory of Copenhagen contemporaries Smerz, we see the snide delivery and digital frivolity of opening track "Anyone". On this track, among many others, a vocal nonchalance is paired to the vacuous snarl of pounding beats. 

“Real Thing?”

Generally, speaking the album compared to its predecessors fosters a more instrumental affair. We see the introduction of hip-hop inspired sounds such as the menancing relentless of "Give Me Life" and the hazy R&B glaze of single "Real Thing?" where spitting verses heap over bass-dropping hooks. Fat, raspy synths build into a towering gargantuan in the climax of "Drown Me" and in "Obsessed" a growling resonance to contrast its R&B smooth is reflected by its trip-hop punch. Perhaps most strikingly on LP "Anyone" is the aggression we see on track "Adrenaline". In a discord of blaring sirens and clanging cymbals that are contrasted to a loungy downtempo, CHINAH's experimentation feels more metal rock than R&B on this rabidly infectious number. 

“Yeah Right”

As for its other singles, we see more of the new CHINAH through the sarcastic tone of "Yeah Right" building over the dreamy dystopia of its staggering synth as swooning emotion is met with the stern reality of Glindvad's delivery. We also see the revelation that is "Strange is Better", an astonishing track that contrasts the cool, calculated venom of Fine's blasé over a cacophony of jarring beats. Strength and fragility intertwine in this conflicting number, where swooning emotion is blurred to general indifference as a layers of synthesized texture build over the loops over its powering anacrusis. 

“Strange is Better”

Despite CHINAH's newly-found innovation, the record "Anyone" is not a betrayal of CHINAH's initial beginnings. We still see the blissful naivete enraptured in the nostalgia of its flowery notes on "Simple" and the ephemeral tone of the crystalline "Everything is New". No fool to turn their back on the tested and true formulations of their previous hits we see the working of their closing track "Nowhere". The longest on the record at over six-minutes length, “Nowhere” grooves over a muted zoom and brings the album to a close with the dovish carry of Fine's lofty delivery. 

While both grabbing and beat-driven, the biggest disappointment about "Anyone" is that is by no means a critic's record. Fitting into neither genre A or B, nor furthering in any discourse on the current state of world affairs, perhaps what makes "Anyone" such a subversive record is its irreverence to pop music today. Eschewing the vocal harmonies and discernible lyrics of its earlier records and instead opting for raw, visceral emotion, "Anyone" though wildly experimental, avoids the pitfall of becoming consciously weird and pretentiously inaccessible. "Strange is Better", they say? Sure, we'll agree on that one.

You can visit the rest of CHINAH’s “Anyone” on Soundcloud GO HERE and Spotify HERE .

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We know full well that Danish trio CHINAH is the real deal when it comes to shattering conventional boundaries in electronica, R&B, and pop. The group recently returned with a minimalist R&B masterpiece in ‘Real Thing?’, their latest taste off their forthcoming debut full length. It’s a fierce simmering, sultry smoldering ballad dripping with future R&B aesthetics and draped in Fine Glindvad’s dreamy twirling, softly poignant vocals. Speaking on the lyrics, Fine explains how 'Real Thing?' is "a song about choosing to be lazy with your integrity because you long for intensity". It explores the feeling of experiencing a sense of "dominance within the submission". CHINAH has also announced a release party in London next month, featuring guest DJs including Balamii’s Em Ady. It’ll be held at Bermondsey Social Club on the 13th, four days after the arrival of long-awaited album No3. 

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CHINAH - Strange Is Better

Fine Glindvad, Simon Kjær and Simon Andersson originally formed in 2014 as a folk outfit, before experimenting with pairing Glindvad’s versatile voice and Kjær’s organic guitar with Andersson’s penchant for minimalist beats and synths.

‘Strange Is Better’ sees the group continuing to push the boundaries of pop, lyrically detailing the incomplete comprehension of life whilst battling against a feeling of existential frustration. Singer Fine Glindvad explains “with Strange Is Better we wanted to make a track that kept its pace all the way through. To give the feeling of always moving forward. Like when your living your life too fast and you never really give yourself the time to think about what is going on and why you are doing the stuff you are doing”.