Copenhagen, Denmark\u2019s Chinah mixes \u201880s soul with modern electronica, and the result is beautiful. There is nothing utterly unique about the kind of music this trio (consisting of singer and songwriter Fine Glindvad, guitarist Simon Kj\u00e6r, and electronic musician and pianist Simon Andersson) makes. But the band\u2019s superb songwriting and musicianship make their songs anything but ordinary.<\/p>\n
Chinah doesn\u2019t have any albums under their belt yet. Hints<\/i> is their second EP, following their 2016 debut EP Once The Lights Are On<\/i>. Their music, consisting of sparse beats, spacey synthesizers, guitars, and Glindvad\u2019s jaunty but haunting vocals, is a winning combination, for it is utterly and deliciously catchy. Although this is true with both the band\u2019s EPs, Hints<\/i> shows more maturity and is for sure the better of the two.<\/p>\n
It is amazing how incredibly infectious this release is without being flashy at all. For instance, there is only one truly fast song here: the beat-driven concluding track \u201cEven Love.\u201d \u201cIf I Stay\u201d is a slow number with no beats at all, featuring ambient synthesizers and a tense pulsating rhythm; still, it is impossible to resist tapping your feet to it.<\/p>\n
The haunting \u201cYoung\u201d represents the delicate side of Hints<\/i>, with Glindvad\u2019s delightfully vulnerable voice and dreamy synthesizers that are sweet but somber at the same time. \u201cAll Your Words\u201d and \u201cCan\u2019t Remember How It Feels\u201d are more upbeat ear candies of the good kind that you would want to hear again and again.<\/p>\n
It is impossible to find any weakness here. True, this is only a seven-song EP. Still, even the short instrumentals, which are ultimately fillers, don\u2019t seem all that bad. The opening track, the two-minute long semi-instrumental \u201cThe Space Another Made\u201d introduces the album in grand style with its siren-like synthesizers and thumping beats. <\/p>\n
The second instrumental, the minute-long \u201cCan\u2019t Remember How It Feels (Interlude),\u201d is a snippet of the core melody of \u201cCan\u2019t Remember How It Feels.\u201d This interlude is a pretty cool lead-in to the song (instead of being one minute of just wasted space); except that the band, strangely enough, has arranged it so it comes after the song. The order of tracks certainly does not make the interlude as effective as it could have been. But if this is the only gripe about the EP, then this really is small beer.<\/p>\n
Chinah\u2019s tiny little EP is addictive as hell. Hopefully the band\u2019s full-length debut \u2013 whenever they make one \u2013 is equally as exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":33265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10058],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-45075","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-chinah","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45075"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}