good love is a hot chip, by RABBIT

good love is a hot chip

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1.	Sunday Best 02:01	buy track
2.	Safeguard 02:57	buy track
3.	The Shipping Channel 03:16	buy track
4.	The Path Now Passed 06:19	buy track
5.	The Bones of Kinder Things 06:46	buy track
6.	Yayna 02:20	buy track
7.	I Don't Wanna Hear 02:09	buy track
8.	Goodbye Kitchen Bench 03:17	buy track
9.	Gone Gone Gone 02:46	buy track

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released November 4, 2022

Maggie Edwards
Claire Johnston
Bobby K
Willy Wyers

Recorded and mixed by Zac Blain
Mastered by Mikey Young
Art by Jess Bateman

Produced in lutruwita/Tasmania. We acknowledge that this land was stolen and we pay our respects to the traditional custodians, the palawa people. Sovereignty was never ceded.

All songs by RABBIT 2022
(except that one about the two birds borrowed lovingly from Anne Briggs. 1971 Topic)

'The Bones of Kinder Things" video
youtu.be/giDi0irIsuQ
Directed, filmed and edited by Keith Deverell.
Filmed at and with thanks to the Raptor Refuge sanctuary in Kettering, lutruwita/Tasmania.

After two years of live shows, demos and one 7” single, the debut full-length album from RABBIT, good love is a hot chip , enters the Hobart/nipaluna musical canon dripping with volume and sweat. The album is a dense mix of ripping punk and thundering ballads steeped in Australian rock ‘n’ roll traditions.

From the opening track Sunday Best through to I Don’t Wanna Hear near the end of the album the influence of bands like The Saints and Celibate Rifles runs deep. Many of the songs wrestle with memory - old places and friends and old heartaches - and the path they shape to the present. Safeguard is a breakneck sprint of a song about finding solace in the mud, with a firm nod to the guitar idiom of Divinyls/McEntee along the way. The mid-pace belter Goodbye Kitchen Bench melds a pithy farewell with 1970s power-pop hooks and a verse borrowed from the English folk singer Anne Briggs. In the middle of the album two songs sit together, The Bones of Kinder Things and The Path Now Passed, soaring punk ballads that showcase the twin-lead vocal RABBIT leans into so well. Throughout the album Maggie Edwards sings deceptively sweetly, snaking melodic lines through the towering rhythm section of Willy Wyers (drumkit) and Claire Johnston (bass), with the guitar of Bobby K grinding white-hot sparks around it all.

The album was recorded by Zac Blain in a decrepit West Hobart share-house in February 2021 and mixed over the next year. Released on cassette with a cover by the Tasmanian artist Jess Bateman, good love is a hot chip is a steeplechase sprint through a boulder field; nine songs to bang your shins on and skin your knees and by the end you're giddy and breathless and there's blood in your sock. Go get ‘em tiger.

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