Surprise Chef - Superb (CD)

Surprise Chef - Superb 

• CD

RELEASE DATE: 05/16/2025

DESCRIPTION:
Australia’s world-renowned cinematic soul out. Surprise Chef return with new
album Superb. A record that represents a change in their creative approach and
turns up the heat in their music. Trading in their meticulous writing and
recording techniques for a looser and less planned approach with the intentions
of bringing more levity to the process, and it comes through in spades. The high
caliber musicianship is still front and center, but they push their sound into a
more energetic and fun place on this album.

Album opener “Sleep Dreams” is the closest thing to a Surprise Chef tune one
would come to expect, but then lead single “Bully Ball” comes on and you get
the picture that they came to kick in the door on this one. The song’s gritty drums
thunder through the speakers and get covered with percussion, keys, bass, and
guitar chanks that stay in the pocket and bring the funk with them. The band
pushes the boundaries of arrangement with tunes like “Body Slam” that starts
off like a sweet soul track then pulls a 180, turning dark and haunting, centering
on a sound they created by tucking a timpani into a bathroom two doors down
from the mixing board. That same sense of experimentation comes up again on
“Fare Evader” where they pepper another neck breaking rhythm track with
synth notes that sound like robot sound effects from a 70s sci- lm. The fellas
turn up the tempo for the dance with tunes like “Consulate Case” and “Tag
Dag”; the former pulling inuence from afro-funk and the latter from jazz-funk.
They take us deep into the beautiful world of Surprise Chef ballads on “Websites” and double down on their abilities to make beautiful and ethereal tracks
with “Dreamer’s Disease”.

With their new album Superb, their new approach, and plans to tour the world,
we are about to see Surprise Chef take the step from the underground’s most
beloved to a household name and we are denitely here for it.

TRACKLIST:

Sleep Dreams
Bully Ball
Body Slam
Consulate Case
Dangerous
Websites
Fare Evader
Tag Dag
Plumb Tuckered
Dreamer’s Disease
Slippery Dip

LABEL: Big Crown Records
UPC: 349223018325