“CHOPCHOP’s music snakes round its orator like a slippery thing, cymbals replaced by the clatter of hubcaps on toms, cutlery-jammed guitars – there’s an itchy jazzy vibe to the melodics, fuelled by a fertile imagination full of bruised shapes and punkish angles.“
Michael Rodham-Heaps in FREQ magazine
ChopChop have a unique sound, but inevitably some comparisons are bandied about when describing them, and during the course of making the Elástico EP names such as Was (Not Was), Ze Records, The Beta Band, The Cramps, and Talking Heads all got a mention.
Elástico is ChopChop’s first release in three years and the EP’s 4 tracks are a good show of what has changed and what has remained in that time. With Lost My Space and The Weatherman they have moved into more intricate songwriting that goes off in unexpected tangents, while Shake It and Elástico reveal that they still love to come up with songs based around monolithic riffs you can throw yourself around to.
