{"product_id":"chalk-crystalpunk","title":"Chalk - Crystalpunk","description":"\u003cp\u003eIrish duo Chalk's full-length debut LP, Crystalpunk [ALTER Music], speaks \u003cbr\u003edirectly to the upbringing and roots of the band members--award-winning \u003cbr\u003emusicians and filmmakers Ross Cullen [vocalist + producer] and Benedict \u003cbr\u003eGoddard [multi-instrumentalist + director]\u003cbr\u003eThe beauty, confusion, complexity, and intensity of their youth - lived under the \u003cbr\u003eshadow and around the scars of conflict - are entangled in the industrial dance-punk \u003cbr\u003ehybrid encoded in the record's DNA, aptly entitled Crystalpunk.\u003cbr\u003e\"This record is us waving a flag for that generation -- the ones who inherited \u003cbr\u003econfusion, resilience, and a fractured sense of self.\" They're waving that flag as \u003cbr\u003eintensely as possible too. For the uninitiated, Chalk mainlines the reaction between \u003cbr\u003egenres, eras, and cultures, commuting this collision into their sound. The Belfast \u003cbr\u003egroup could comfortably power an underground warehouse party after-dark, incite a \u003cbr\u003emid-day festival mosh-pit, or shake an arena on any given evening. Their power has \u003cbr\u003eseamlessly translated to the stage with the group packing venues and delivering \u003cbr\u003ealternately sweaty and electrifying performances to a growing rabid fan base. As a \u003cbr\u003egroup, they've sold out shows across the UK, EU and USA, notched festival \u003cbr\u003eperformances such as Glastonbury, SXSW, BBK, Trans Musicals and more across 11 \u003cbr\u003ecountries and were handpicked to tour alongside IDLES and Fontaines D.C..\u003cbr\u003eComing from dissimilar backgrounds and rallying together naturally, Ben and Ross \u003cbr\u003efirst crossed paths in film school. As the story goes, Ben had noticed a framed poster \u003cbr\u003eof Dublin disruptors Gilla Band in one of Ross's Instagram photos and felt a kinship \u003cbr\u003ebefore ever actually speaking to him. \"Nobody else at our school was into \u003cbr\u003eexperimental noise guitar bands, so that was all I needed to see,\" laughs Ben. \u003cbr\u003eEmerging in 2022, Chalk initially made waves with songs like \"Them,\" \"Velodrome,\" and \u003cbr\u003e\"Static.\"\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, they come-of-age and tell a story that resonates beyond borders. Not just a \u003cbr\u003eportrait of the band, but one of their home, a complicated place where the sacrifices \u003cbr\u003emade and risks taken by activists, artists, ravers and punks created the only \u003cbr\u003eenvironment that a band like Chalk could emerge from. Crystalpunk is not about \u003cbr\u003echoosing a side, it's about choosing the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALTER MUSIC","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":53232519217479,"sku":"TRI-69595","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Skem Smoke Vinyl","offer_id":53232519250247,"sku":"TRI-69596","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/8f2506a4efb558c7fd29bda8bed48912.jpg?v=1769603749","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/chalk-crystalpunk","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}