Record Label: I Love Pop Noodle Records

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Listening to Cha-Cha’s debut album is the musical equivalent of having your nipples tweaked by an organ grinder’s monkey for forty minutes. On the ‘disturbing childhood circus entertainers musical enjoyment o-meter’ this reading is on the favourable end of the popular music scale. At the opposite end of the scale (just so you have some terms of reference) is anything that has ever come of out X-Factor – the musical equivalent of being sodomised by a clown. The tightly funky lead single ‘Phonographic Love’, opens ‘We are…Cha-Cha’. This is closely followed (in pace and quality) by the equally catchy ‘Sit You Down’ which is another rather well formed indie lollipop with a dirty disco aftertaste. Think along lines of The Rapture and New Young Pony Club and you’ll be heading in the right direction. ‘Cherokee’ contains a strong indie anthem chorus, some nice harmonies and a toe-tapping rhythm that fizzles through a series of likeable hooks.  With ‘Windows’, the final track Cha-Cha are really onto something. The rich, rolling reggae baseline accompanies another sweet pop melody, though the ‘lovely lady’ chorus sounds a bit creepy. Overall, this album is a wet willy from a mime artist on the aforementioned scale.

What’s on your radio? Fancy hearing some Phonographic Love from  disco-rock trio Cha-Cha instead? You know you wanna’ move!

‘Phonographic Love’ is a freshly cut slice of pure ear-candy, created by London based Cha-Cha with the sole purpose of getting feet moving and heads bobbing along to their original ensemble of groovy bass lines, melodic synths, snappy guitar jingles, uptempo beats and extremely catchy dual-vocal hooks.

Never heard of them? Oddly enough, that’s exactly what the trio prefer to know before you first experience their music!

In the brisk twelve months since their line-up was completed, the former members of Cat The Dog (Virgin) and Dance, Paris Dance! decided to strategically remain under the radar until their album was fully formed- focusing more on the writing aspects by keeping their increasingly crowded live shows to a bare minimum and instead spending literally months on end writing an eclectic collection of pop songs that they are not only proud of, but feel contain enough diversity between them to not get pigeon-holed into one particular genre. When Cha-Cha do announce their (up until now) rather rare live performances, new fans who have stumbled across the band online and from word-of-mouth seem to thrive on the fact that they have discovered a potentially massive band in the early stages of their career. This collective feeling of love and appreciation for the band who have been under-the-radar for too long has formed a community consisting of truly loyal followers who have consequently labelled Cha-Cha as ‘London’s best kept secret band’.

Phonographic Love is being digitally released on the 31st of January 2010 and is the first single to be taken from the band’s highly anticipated debut album, ‘We Are..’, released via Pop Noodle in March 2010. The band are celebrating the release with a free single launch party at The Playground (93 Feet East, London) on Friday the 5th of February.
Please contact chris@ilovepopnoodle.com for any further information.

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