Chrome Black Gold, by Chrome Hoof

Chrome Black Gold

by Chrome Hoof

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Deidre House Basically a fusion of disco and metal, very avant-garde and fun

jeff paper Beautiful! Love this album. I hear something fascinating and different each time I listen.

craig andrews very good jazz rock

Ed Sprake Progtastic genius.
Absolutely fantastic album running to a theme all the way through but with significant variation throughout. Very Chrome Hoof indeed. Brilliant. Favorite track: Knopheria.

PDD Prog Rock meets Punk, with a touch of New Wave and even Death Metal to fill out the gumbo. Just an amazing album. Favorite track: Ultimate Sealed Unit.

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	1.	Enter The Drobe 03:36
	2.	Knopheria 04:20
	3.	When The Lightning Strikes 05:12
	4.	Kestrel Dawn 01:48
	5.	Tortured Craft 04:02
	6.	Ultimate Sealed Unit 05:46
	7.	Exo-Spektral 04:09
	8.	Andromeda 02:51
	9.	Dysnomia 01:32
	10.	Varkada Blues 06:02
	11.	Drobe Out 01:51

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[WATCH] The official music video for the song "Knopheria" (featuring Shingai Shoniwa of The Noisettes) from 'Chrome Black Gold' (Cuneiform Records) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YtX4V6dNuA

"...has the subtlety of Can, the pomp of Pentagram and Sabbath, faithfully reproducing the looping musical themes of Magma and Goblin..."
– Kenny Anyway, Don’t Panic

"...a dizzying, many-limbed whirlwind of space-funk, soul, prog, jazz and titanic doom."
– Emily Mackay, NME

"...a mind-blowing energetic mix of math-rock, prog, funk, disco, and psychedelia [with] some hints of jazz and metal.”
– Laura Lotti, The 405

"Are Chrome Hoof the best live band in the UK...?"
– headline from The Quietus

There are solo performers, duos, and bands, and then there are concepts, bigger than and beyond any particular singer, central instrumentalist, style, or ego. Chrome Hoof is one such concept, an evolving organism whose singular approach spans progressive rock, electronic dance music (especially electro), metal, funk, classical music, and more. Like Sun Ra, Magma, Trans-Global Underground, Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, and Afro-Celt Sound System, Chrome Hoof is an ever-developing affair, unpredictable yet with a drive and focus that makes their music (like the aforementioned icons) truly memorable. Moreover, Chrome Hoof serve up their sonic gumbo with a truly theatrical flair evoking the spectacles of Devo, Gong, Parliament/Funkadelic, Hawkwind, and Sun Ra, transporting their audiences on a Trip Into the Beyond. The result is a one-of-a-kind, hugely entertaining, nitro-pop, electro-metal, synth-pop, sci-fi, space-disco, psyche-Dalek spectacle!

Founded in 2000 by Leo & Milo Smee, current members include Leo Smee (the long-serving bassist of Britain's doom-metal heroes Cathedral), bass, guitar, and synthesizers; Alex Thomas (Squarepusher, Air, John Cale, Asia, Bolt Thrower), drums; Emmett Elvin (Guapo), keyboards; James Sedwards (Guapo, Nought), guitar; Andrew Gustard, guitar; Chloe Herington (Knifeworld), bassoon and saxophone; Sarah Anderson, violin & viola; Chan Brown, vocals, and Emma Sullivan, Vocoder, trumpet, vocals, and percussion.

Chrome Black Gold, their 3rd full length album, finds the group calling upon some of the UK's most prolific musicians for this latest slab of music! Guests include the fabulous vocalist Shingai Shoniwa (Noisettes) and Jeff Walker (Carcass). The Hoof spring into action like the finely honed pan-galactic touring machine they have become, their spectacular and unique shows now the stuff of legend Across the Multiverse.

Having spread its feverish, exultant gospel across Europe, headlining a multitude of festivals, and with this powerful, new album backing them up, their hugely engaging and fun prog-psych-house amalgam is primed to dizzy and delight ever newer, ever larger audiences!

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released October 8, 2013

Leo Smee: bass / guitar / synthesizers / percussion / vocals
Alex Thomas: drums / percussion
Emmett Elvin: Rhodes / piano / synthesizer / Hammond
Emma Sullivan: trumpet / vocals / vocoder
Chloe Herington: saxophone / bassoon
Sarah Anderson: violin / viola
James Sedwards: electric and 12-string acoustic guitar
Andrew Gustard: guitar
Chan Brown: deep vocals & double breakfast + extra breakfast
guest players
Shingai Shoniwa: vocals (2, 3, 5, 10)
Jeff Walker: vocals (10)
Lola Olafisoye: vocals (7)
Adam Bushell: marimba
Dave Smith: percussion

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Cuneiform Records is an independent record label releasing adventurous, boundary-bursting music by artists from around the world.

Founded in 1984.
Based in Washington D.C.

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