Chapel Club flew to Los Angeles yesterday (January 6) to begin work on their second album for the next two months. This will be the follow-up to their debut release at the start of 2011, Palace.
The album's producer is Grammy-winning Tom Biller. Biller has a long and extensive background in production, engineering and mixing. Along with producing Warpaint's The Fool, he worked with Liars on Sisterworld, engineered Kanye West's Late Registration (for which he received the Grammy in 2005), Eels and 30 Seconds To Mars; and co-produced and played on Karen O's soundtrack to the Spike Jonze film, Where The Wild Things Are. Biller is also a member of the LA band Shadow Shadow Shade, whose live shows and debut record has gained them fans like artist Shepard Fairey (Obey), and Jim James of My Morning Jacket.
Over the course of last year, Chapel Club gave a hint of what might be expected to be forthcoming on their next studio sojourn, airing two new songs (New Colours, Shy) at summer festivals in the UK and Europe, and adding a further four (Burt Reynolds, Old House, Your Lawn and Excuses/The Ice) to the set for their October UK tour. What became apparent was that the band known for their dark lyrical imagery and brooding melancholic feel, had begun to look upward, adding a synth-laden dance feel to the mix, and swapping vocalist Lewis Bowman's smoothly rich baritone to a falsetto for the most part. Whether this will be in keeping with the mood of the new album's full body of tracks remains to be seen. We wouldn't be surprised to find that the Bowman baritone once again takes a prominent place in the band's catalogue. But who knows? Whatever Chapel Club turn out this time around it is bound to be as intriguing as ever.
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