CHUM Announce Debut Single “Beefcake Doctrine”

Chum are somewhat of an enigma, emerging from the flourishing London DIY Psych and noise rock scene earlier this year, band members are currently credited as Marvin Gardens, Randy Burns, Johnny Utah, Sweet Pudding and Tomas. They have already gained an underground reputation for bringing a live show which floats somewhere between séance, pantomime and bad trip; Chum clearly have a passion for humour, theatrics and the ethereal all the while set to a backdrop of crushing bass heavy sonics, maniacal kraut-tinged drumming and toe-tapping pop-esque melodics, interspersed with a dry somewhat disturbed vocal delivery.

Beefcake Doctrine is the first single to be released from their forthcoming album, Metaphysical, due out in April of this year (also on Evil Blizzard’s record label Crackedankles) and their first recorded output to be heard. Tracked by increasingly renowned studio engineer Wayne Adams at his own Bear Bites Horse Studio in Haggerston, Beefcake Doctrine offers a driving slab of pumping noise rock. Synth heavy, groove laden, pulsating and nasty, the single keeps spilling over the edges of weird and wonky whilst somehow remaining within reach.

Beefcake Doctrine will be released on Crackedankles Records on the 1st February and will be available to stream and download from the bands official Bandcamp page with orders for a very limited 7” lathe cut vinyl record available online and at upcoming shows. A video for the single will also be released and Chum will be heading out for a number of live dates throughout the Spring & Summer