Word: chochukmo
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...cack-handed guitar playing of solemn undergraduates, chubby expats and the sort of people that have fabulous haircuts but dreadful day jobs. But a handful of ensembles are worth crossing the street to see. And a very few - perhaps no more than two or three - are indisputably talented. Chochukmo (the name is a joining of the Cantonese words for persist, chase and feather) inhabits that slender percentile...
...This brilliance is not quite captured in their debut album, The King Lost His Pink, which was evidently recorded in haste (for some excruciating moments the live favorite "Head to Toe" is actually out of tune) and without the benefit of a seasoned producer. Chochukmo's fan base will cut them slack - such is the band's fey, disheveled charm - but a less breathless follow-up is plainly needed. So while The King Lost His Pink incurs no loss of potential, the hard part has yet to come...
This year's lineup includes punk act Blood Red Shoes and highbrow indie combo Los Campesinos, both from the U.K., as well as U.S. electronica duo YACHT, DJ Alexis Taylor and local favorites Chochukmo, perhaps the most charismatic band to have emerged in southern China in recent years. For details see clockenflap.com...
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