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Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! -
Get Lost / Find Yourself
by Daniel King - 17 May 2015
French pop rock...post hardcore...popcore...easycore...quintet Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! have gone and done it again with Get Lost, Find Yourself. I mean that quite literally as their third studio album does not stray far from their tried and tested model, aside from a bit less of the sreaming. But why would it? When you've found a forumla that works you stick to is don't you?
C!NCC!, as I'll be referring to them as from now, kick things off on this effort with Playing Dead, a track straight out of the pop rock handbook. It is essentially the exact song you would expect to hear at the start of a C!NCC! album, it's punchy, riffy and a bloody great start. Singer Bert Poncet asks "Where's all the passion? Has it run out?" Clearly not for these five Europeans. New drummer Bastien Lefaye has slotted in perfectly and City Of Light showcases this. It is one of the albums anthems (although this genre does lend it self nicely to an anthem) and one that could, along with a few others on here, become the soundtrack to the Summer of 2015.
The Other Line is another one of those anthem style tracks and follows the course of the opening couple of songs, aside from a more melodic chorus. Set It Straight turns it down a bit, but not for long as Pull You Under opens with the heaviest riffs and vocals on the album, they soon dissipate as the softer vocals come back to the fore.
It seems that C!NCC! are taking the 'mainstream' approach with this album and trying to get a few more fans on board with the clean vocals and anthemic (there's that word again...in a different form albeit) choruses. If feels like an EPs worth of material goes by before any of the aforementioned hardcore hits the ears.
Luckily, the whole album is well written, well produced and well received. It's an album you can have on in the car or in the background with a few beers with mates. Closing with Every Moment at least gives you the heavier ending that is needed.
Overall, this is a good album from the Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! lads. It's not as heavy as I personally would have liked, but that will suit a lot of their fans. Hopefully it'll give these guys a bit of a push to get out of the shadows of the bands around them. They certainly deserve it.
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