Small Black - New Chain Starts with J made up of acoustic versions

made up of acoustic versions of Catherine Wheel songs

From the sustained consonants in Parks vocals to McLeod's commanding slide in Workhorse and drifting melancholy at the outset

when the Kansan sunsets look icy and distant

2 Everybody Needs Somebody to Love

This 2 LP set – pressed on purple

Small Black - New Chain Starts with J made up of acoustic versionsNew Chain is the debut long player from New York's Small Black. The Brooklyn group have succeeded in melting together locked and popped drum shudder, gauzy spirographic synths and subtly contagious, half remembered melody into ebullient bursts of evocative, subliminal and thoroughly modern pop. The songs are equally informed by the rhythmic bounce and stylistic swagger of more left leaning contemporary radio rap and R'&'B as it is the submerged