Chime School Chime School (TRANSPARENT MAGENTA VINYL) dup-review-publication a discouraged Zé was on

a discouraged Zé was on the verge of abandoning music completely

London-bred and Paris based

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produced and mixed by Butch Vig and Andy Wallace (a team that had helped turn Nirvana's NEVERMIND multi-platinum) was not the barefaced bid for mainstream acceptance that surly underground souls grumbled about in the pages of fanzines

Chime School Chime School (TRANSPARENT MAGENTA VINYL) dup-review-publication a discouraged Zé was onChime School is the project of San Francisco musician Andy Pastalaniec. Endlessly charmed by 80s indie and its 60s forbearers (and any record with a 12 string guitar), Andy cut his teeth as a drummer with SLR labelmate Odd Hope in their early group Pink Films; later with shoegazers Cruel Summer, and currently with indiepop outfit Seablite. But it wasn't until he was gifted a cassette 4 track portastudio "almost as a dare," that he came out from behind