Chavez
Gone Glimmering



Release Date: 1995 | Tracklist

Review Summary: I chop the sides away. I went ahead and chopped the sides away

I think our very own BMDrummer put it best when he described Chavez as an ‘angular single-word post-whatever’ band. This puts them in good company (Unwound, Polvo, Fugazi, Slint, Silkworm, Shiner, Brainiac, Jawbox etc.) and, more importantly, is an apt description. Chavez are quiet and spidery. Chavez are quick and skronky. Chavez are catchy and slightly theatrical. I like them. They play with earnestness and irony and all the little sandpits the aforementioned bands carved out for themselves.

Now, by my reckoning, a lot of the bands above were quite singularly focused whereas Chavez fiddled around. For example, Jawboz were a punk band through and through. Polvo were a twiddly-diddly high-pitched math-skronk band. Brainiac were electro freaks. Slint were a sneaky sneaky i'm-so-quiet-BUT-LOUD weaponized sadboi-poetry delivery mechanism. But Chavez took a little bit of all these completely made up hyphenated descriptions and crafted one super-hyphenated identity, a sort of german-compound-concept-word-genre-agglutination of 90s indie-spectrum buzzwords. Also the vocalist has a gravelly voice and I like that because it makes the hard rockin parts more hard rockin.



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Comments:Add a Comment 
Mort.
October 10th 2023


26197 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

i like this band a lot and this needed a review

AsleepInTheBack
Staff Reviewer
October 10th 2023


10501 Comments


This sounds like guitar music

Mort.
October 10th 2023


26197 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

i relapsed hard



like i lasted like 3-4 months thanks enough of a break





SomeCallMeTim
October 10th 2023


4699 Comments


well, thanks to you now I know about Chavez. Checked some stuff from this and Ride the Fader and will def be returning

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
October 10th 2023


62706 Comments


man I love talking about bands

someone
Contributing Reviewer
October 10th 2023


7064 Comments


this has tracks but is mostly songs

Mort.
October 10th 2023


26197 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Indeed it is

Mort.
October 10th 2023


26197 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

but also im enjoying writing again and not taking it too seriously by doing these lil casual reviews so yeah gonna do a lot more

AsleepInTheBack
Staff Reviewer
October 10th 2023


10501 Comments


I approve this is good news

Lil casual bois for president

Mort.
October 10th 2023


26197 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

im imagining little kids dressed like frat bros calmly explaining their platform

GhandhiLion
November 27th 2023


17688 Comments


best chav vest

Mort.
November 27th 2023


26197 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

youre a chav vest!



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