The Chakras
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The Chakras are an Irish alternative rock
band from Dublin, Ireland
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This young Dublin born, London based five piece commenced their journey almost two years ago, with an early show supporting Ian Brown in Dublin. Brown immediately gave the wide-eyed but confident Irish chaps two enthusiastic thumbs up, and thus begins their story.
Led by brothers Rocky and Gordo Whittaker, but soul mates since their days at school, The Chakras were hell bent on writing music that evoked some sort of reaction. Raised on a diet of Storm In Heaven era Verve self-belief, and Jesus and Mary Chain’s wanton fuzz, the band took an early hazy blueprint of how they wanted to sound and immediately removed anything that might interfere with their creating of it. They killed off long-standing relationships, resigned from the day-jobs, moved to London and have here made a record that took those noisy, hissing 8-track bedroom demos and transformed the very same songs into swirling, guitar-heavy anthems.
Introduced in late 2010 with the skyscraping ‘Build Me A Swan’ single on limited 7”, The Chakras’ work with producer Jaz Rogers and mixer Chris Potter (Urban Hymns) has given the band a freedom and license to reference those immediate shoegaze influences, but not mask the melodies with too much unnecessary noise. As friends who intrinsically trust each other’s judgment, The Chakras lent their trust in Potter’s experience, and ‘Build Me A Swan’ is a telling first band statement.
In early 2011 The group signed to Planet Function Records an indie offshoot of the legendary R&S label.
So where ‘Build Me A Swan’ weaves incessantly with a mesmerizing, bass-heavy groove, ‘Slowdive’ is a Creation Records friendly long lost fuzzy ballad, in stark comparison to ‘We The People’ and it’s call to arms, psychedelic guitar licks, bobbing and weaving with a power and intent.
The Chakras debut album Build Me A Swan is due to be released later in 2011.
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
band from Dublin, Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
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This young Dublin born, London based five piece commenced their journey almost two years ago, with an early show supporting Ian Brown in Dublin. Brown immediately gave the wide-eyed but confident Irish chaps two enthusiastic thumbs up, and thus begins their story.
Led by brothers Rocky and Gordo Whittaker, but soul mates since their days at school, The Chakras were hell bent on writing music that evoked some sort of reaction. Raised on a diet of Storm In Heaven era Verve self-belief, and Jesus and Mary Chain’s wanton fuzz, the band took an early hazy blueprint of how they wanted to sound and immediately removed anything that might interfere with their creating of it. They killed off long-standing relationships, resigned from the day-jobs, moved to London and have here made a record that took those noisy, hissing 8-track bedroom demos and transformed the very same songs into swirling, guitar-heavy anthems.
Introduced in late 2010 with the skyscraping ‘Build Me A Swan’ single on limited 7”, The Chakras’ work with producer Jaz Rogers and mixer Chris Potter (Urban Hymns) has given the band a freedom and license to reference those immediate shoegaze influences, but not mask the melodies with too much unnecessary noise. As friends who intrinsically trust each other’s judgment, The Chakras lent their trust in Potter’s experience, and ‘Build Me A Swan’ is a telling first band statement.
In early 2011 The group signed to Planet Function Records an indie offshoot of the legendary R&S label.
So where ‘Build Me A Swan’ weaves incessantly with a mesmerizing, bass-heavy groove, ‘Slowdive’ is a Creation Records friendly long lost fuzzy ballad, in stark comparison to ‘We The People’ and it’s call to arms, psychedelic guitar licks, bobbing and weaving with a power and intent.
The Chakras debut album Build Me A Swan is due to be released later in 2011.