Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #205131 in Music
• Released on: 2002-03-04

Amazon.co.uk Review
The debut album from London town's latest gang of hip young gunslingers, Chat and Business screeches into life with a sound like fingernails scraped bloodily down a blackboard. Fear not, though--it's merely Ikara Colt's contrary way of redrawing the boundaries. Frustrated by the mainstream aspirations of modern indie, these four sharp-suited insurrectionaries have written an album that should rightly sit like an ugly scar on the face of the mainstream. An unholy mix of post-punk touchstones like Joy Division The Fall, and The Pixies, bound together with treble-heavy no-wave production values and stern militant stance, Chat And Business hammers its point home with an unnaturally sharp focus. The opening "One Note" does pretty much what it says on the tin, a one-chord clatter of yelping insouciance and bloody-knuckled guitar scree with edges so angular they could cut glass. "Rudd" thieves a leaf from Mark E Smith's book of non sequiturs ("Short-wave radio! Cheap magazines!" they shriek, as one). And the excellent "Sink Venice" is Ikara Colt's one impassioned stab at getting a hit, an addictive scream-a-long that hooks its talons around your ears and refuses to let go. It's an unashamedly messy, scrappy debut--but you'd better believe, making a bloody racket is a serious business.--Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

A short stab of something new!
Well, here we are. Hopefully soon, you too can own one of the greatest album of this decade so far! The album is delightful through and through, with the slow pounding catchiness of *city of glass* to the furious mish mash of guitars and vocals in *bishop's son* and *pop group* this album caters for a taste of the new, the fast, and catchy. This band are extremely hard to describe, but if you think of punk on hyper-pills with a air of class (not to mention looks, they're snazzy dressers!) to it. Be sure to look out for the secret track at the end! Seriously, you need to buy this album, you will NOT be dissappointed!

Superb debut
To start with... what a funky CD cover. Blank canvas.. and you get stickers to fill in the gaps, pretty novel, pretty cool. It is a great start to a great album, and hopefully a long glittering career. At last, Britain had something to challenge the Strokes! Heavy pop punk, and it really hits the spot. Magic album, each song sounds so very different, yet you will love them all.

*** Sounds like Pixies, The Fall, The Strokes ***

FRESH BLAST BY YOUR NEW FAVE COLT
AT LAST, SOMETHING FOR BRITAIN TO BE PROUND OF. THIS IS A STUNNING FIRST ALBUM BY THE BRIT ROCK/PUNK FOUR.EACH TRACK IS DIFFERENT IT ITS OWN WAY. IT OPENS WITH A SCORCHER, ONE NOTE , WITH THE OPENING LINES-SO I ATE A BLOCK OF CHOCOLATE, AND THEN I COULD NOT SLEEP-. THE STAND OUT TRACKS ARE, ONE NOTE, BISHOPS SON, CITY OF GLASS, POP GROUP, BELGRAVIA, SINK VENICE...... HANG ON A MINUTE, ACTUALY EVER TRACK IS THE BEST , BUT IF YOU WANT TO NARROW IT DOWN TO 2 THEN IT WOULD HAVE TO BE RUDD AND AT THE LODGE.PAULS VOCALS ARE FULL OF HAPPIENESS,CLAIRESGUITAR PLAYING IS MAGIC,JONS BASS PLAYING IS OFF THIS WORLD BUT OVERALL DOMOMICS DRUM PLAYING IS TOO GOOD FOR WORDS TO DESCRIBE( AT THE LODGE ), IF YOU LIKE ANY OF THE SINGLES- ONE NOTE , SINK VENICE OR RUDD THEN YOU WILL LOVE THIS RECORD TO BITS BECAUSE, HEY YOU DO LIKE MUSIC, RIGHT!