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Mar 13, 2019Punk is a huge step forward for CHAI, and easily one of the best albums of the year.
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Mar 13, 2019It’s a heady, dazzling blend of pop, punk, dance, funk and electronica, moulded into a swirl of kaleidoscopic energy.
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Mar 15, 2019Unafraid to delve into their every whim, from the accomplished to the adventurous to the absurd, CHAI are just about as now as you can get without stumbling into the unrealized.
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Mar 15, 2019The Nagoya-based band’s second album, PUNK, is terrifically over the top.
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Mar 20, 2019The lightness of PUNK isn’t toothless escapism. Rather, it’s a challenge to find sweetness, joy and individuality in a world that trends toward cynical conformity.
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Mar 15, 2019A joyful revolution.
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Mar 15, 2019With PUNK, CHAI have defied all expectations, decreeing that everybody to them is cute--and they don’t need to be.
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Mar 15, 2019Even though Punk might not be the pop explosion that Pink was, it's a well-rounded album that capitalizes on the band's imagination and capacity for experimentation while blending the sounds more organically. Plus, it's more fun than just about anything else going on in the late 2010s and that alone makes the record and the band worth checking out and falling (and staying madly) in love with.
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Q MagazineMar 13, 2019Chai specialise in indie-pop confections, but lean in close and you're swept into an anarchic whirlwind. [May 2019, p.108]
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Mar 13, 2019New cute or not, CHAI make a pretty strong blend of all the best bits.
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Positive: 30 out of 41
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Mixed: 6 out of 41
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Negative: 5 out of 41
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May 6, 2019
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Nov 20, 2021Bizarre pop rock masterpiece you don't need to understand to enjoy. They really stunned on this one setting a precedent on what rock could be.