Chat and Business explained

Chat and Business
Type:Album
Artist:Ikara Colt
Cover:Chat And Business.jpg
Released:March 2002
Recorded:England
Genre:Alternative rock
Label:Fantastic Plastic
Next Title:Basic Instructions
Next Year:2002

Chat and Business is the debut album from British post-punk/art rock band Ikara Colt.[1] [2] It was released on Fantastic Plastic Records on 4 March 2002 (released in Europe and the USA on Epitaph Records, and in Japan by Maximum 10 Records.[3] The record was disqualified from the UK album charts as accompanying stickers, which the purchaser was to match with the captions below spaces on the cover of the album, were deemed to be a free gift.[4]

Critical reception

PopMatters called the album "speedy, volatile, spittle- dripping, and, above all, filled with an energy unique to frustrated and bored college students."[5] Trouser Press dismissed it as "art-rock by the numbers."[6]

Track listing

  1. One Note - (2:18)
  2. Rudd - (2:59)
  3. Bishop's Son - (2:59)
  4. City of Glass - (4:03)
  5. Pop Group - (1:53)
  6. Belgravia - (3:03)
  7. Sink Venice - (2:44)
  8. After This - (3:08)
  9. At the Lodge - (3:50)
  10. Here We Go Again - (2:58)
  11. May B 1 Day - (4:33)
  12. Video Clip Show - (10:25)
  13. Memory (Japanese bonus)
  14. Your Vain Attempts (Japanese bonus)
  15. Escalate (Hidden Track / Japanese bonus)

A hidden track 'Escalate' is included after Video Clip Show, it starts on 8:37.This track was a live favourite, and is a re-recording of the Sink Venice b-side.the album was purposely made to run at 45 minutes long, the length of 1 side of a c90.All songwriting credits on the album are given to Ikara Colt

The European pressing is a double cd, CD2 features the Basic Instructions EP tracks:

  1. bring it to me
  2. may b 1 day #2
  3. don't they know
  4. panic

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ikara Colt | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  2. Web site: Ikara Colt Chat And Business. exclaim.ca.
  3. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r584102|pure_url=yes}} Chat and Business review ]. allmusic.com . 2009-04-06.
  4. Web site: Caught Colt . nme.com . 2009-04-06.
  5. Web site: Ikara Colt: Chat and Business. November 7, 2002. PopMatters.
  6. Web site: Ikara Colt . Trouser Press . 13 September 2020.

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