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Chinatown Slalom – Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

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Liverpool’s own, Chinatown Slalom, have released their incredibly diverse and eclectic debut album, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? To say the least, it is next to impossible to nail down this band’s “genre”. The project features sample-heavy boom bap beats on songs like Where U At? and Dr Marvelo & His Best Friend Corkie, while also including crooning, guitar-laden ballads like Just Love, and more synthesizer-driven electronic tracks like Ricky’s Song. Vocally, the band adopts an incredibly unique style, alternating between heavily filtered and processed verses, layered vocals, and certain tracks, most significantly 8:30 and Dreams, that sound more like Paul McCartney and Jai Paul took hallucinogens together and recorded an entire album in the desert (but in the best way, of course). If there could be one track to sum up their sound, it would be one that bears this project’s title, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. It incorporates all of these distinctive aspects of their music in a way that comes together to form one of the most refreshing and progressive pieces of music in recent years. All things considered, more people need to be listening to Chinatown Slalom.
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