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WOWSERS!

by CHICKN

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1.
Invocation 00:27
2.
Am I Cher? 03:33
Waking up alive is a perfect way to start your day I woke up alive I was feeling gawky in a way Am I Cher? Oh wake me up and see, I’m Cher! Is this Cher? Ah, take a knife and scrape that Cher! This Cher will never leave you She loves you she won’t screw you She sees you and pursues you She knows what you’ve been up to This Cher will never leave you She loves you she won’t screw you She sees you and pursues you You know there is no future! One queen bee per hive strong enough and fitted like a glove So away I hive well I believe in life now after love! Am I Cher? Tell me now if we are Cher
3.
Do you ever consider the cultural impact of moderate acts or your average facts? Do you ever recall all the infinite feedback that created the stars and keeps grinding my axe? Well there’s no cultural impact from a regular contact can’t expect macaroni when you only say cheese you see cultural impact lies down perfectly abstract peeping in the keyhole while you’re searching your key It’s like Ann and Andy, popcorn and candy you will get them both and you will get them at ease Too many parables are told and heard and acted every day and night and your reactions comparables to them are dipped in deep familiar fright While attending the trial of the great confusion we sleep in the graveyard of our kindness and bliss infirmity will feed our acute delusion of a medium middling life spread out like a disease Too many parables are told and heard and acted every day and night and your reactions comparables to them are dipped in deep familiar fright Too many parables are thought to be as bright as they will ever be
4.
I’ve got a monkey in my mind that I‘ve been trying to leave behind I’m tryin’ to get it off my back and find a thrust to sing instead With marks of weakness marks of woe inside a crimson afterglow I found myself without a voice yet with a breeze in a field of rye I cry diamonds All the daughters of today are the poets of tomorrow they ’re meant to lead and not to follow you see the daughters of today they are the poets of tomorrow now see the prophets of today the fucking censors of tomorrow they dip the daughters in a sea of sorrow so my metaphor is blue But then a voice calls me from afar it has the shine of a distant star saying “I reach from a land of pain under a cloudless and sapphire sky” I cry diamonds
5.
Men are dead Men are gone but some Chickn carried on greedy birds that they can’t fly through their living learned to die
6.
Egg Of Love 04:53
Resist me grow me strong Persist me I’ll go along with all the pictures and faces my old lovers their traces without your jewel your laces your airs, your graces that turned my life into a song I crack the egg of love among the clouds above a savage jealousy my deepest fantasy Our eyes like a nail on the wall trying hard to recall how it felt like before we turned our lives into a song We cracked the egg of love among the clouds above I see through them somehow arcane reasons made out of now
7.
You seem to worry all the time tryin' to clean the dirt and grime jaded and always left behind facing a wretched fragmented mind You seem to worry all the time carrying your thoughts wandering why you step outside and see him there he rays a grace that's hard to pair He gets born and he dies everyday that’s not the only price to pay he digs a hole and sleeps within he’s thinking “China must win” I saw him standing in the crowd two nightingales were singing loud some said that he was not allowed They thought they lost what he had found but he just splits without a sound I keep him a tree a honeycomb - he reads the distant future I embrace with love his biggest loss - he’s both a wound a suture I keep him a candle and a cross - machines built to be useless he draws on sand a dream I had so I kill my precious rudeness He steps in and quickly claims some ground he gathers passers-by around he tells them what he had just seen he says that China must win! too many love songs around us to be sung too many love songs around us too many love songs that always make us sick none of them speak for that man
8.
I suddenly turn my head and see there’s something climbing down a tree then it comes close and I see it’s me Oh me Oh me where have I been? I missed my face and I missed my grin I left me but a never weaned me so tell me everything that I have seen I’ve seen some shit and I’ve seen a lot this world is nothing like I thought for days and nights in seas I fought and when I reached the borders I got shot I bring me pain and I bring me rain My life was hanging from a weather vain I nearly lost my feelings and I lost my brain but I have to share what kept me sane No matter what I’m gonna get there’s one thing I should not forget I summon it to pay my rent and it dries me up when I am wet It smells like flowers in the end of spring it makes me feel like I’m a queen It shelters me it flies above me The elevational Love of Frank Zappa A Love supreme and not imposed Life’s lot easier with my eyes closed ‘cause all I see and all I feel is the Elevational Love of Frank Zappa
9.
Athens was a lovely city smiling people feeding smiling lives but one day they lost their smiling faces they broke out in hives So they left the lovely city trying to cure the plague within the sea but they all slept on the sea bed now their children hold the key Athens now a field of clovers some they die before they even sprout most of them grow five feet tall oh my into a blink of eye And among them see the livestock mighty times for all the mice and men men are living in the sewage mice are forming groups of ten When we raise our heads and look up foliage’s everything that we can see and the cloud that’s devouring Athens marches like a sight unseen When the cloud had finished Athens all was left was just a ball of clay I stick my fingers and form war masks for my friends I’ll make amends.

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Following their explosive debut that received praising reviews in Greece and abroad, CHICKN are back with their highly anticipated sophomore album, entitled “WOWSERS!”

“WOWSERS!” was recorded live on the verge of 2017 and 2018. It consists of 9 acid glam elegies that ooze with West-Coast vibes blended with proto-punk explosions, unfolding their agitated collective psyche. Lyrical horns, hooking vocal lines, alluring percussion, whimsical drumming, arcade guitar riffs, sensual basslines and ankle-played keyboards blend in together and escalate into meteoric freak-outs with no alarms. “WOWSERS!” is a shiny, vigilant and curiously comforting LP, a true lovechild reminiscing about what having fun sounds like.

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released May 11, 2018

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Angelos Krallis: Lead Vocals,Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Banjo, Electric Piano, Electric Organ, Synthesiser
Pantelis Karasevdas: Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Piano
Christos Bekiris: Guitars, Backing Vocals, String Machine
Axios Zafeirakos: Electric Bass, Double Bass, Backing Vocals
Don Stavrinos: Horns, Backing Vocals, Percussion
Haris Neilas: Percussion, Backing Vocals, Electric Sitar
Christina Koziraki, Celia Cioufi & Maria Olga Parasiri: Backing Vocals
Noda Pappas: Electric Guitar on “Is this Cher?”
Gus Boggar: Electric Guitar on “Too Many Parables”

All Music by CHICKN
All Songs and Lyrics by Angelos Krallis
Engineered by Nikos Triantafyllou & Iraklis Vlachakis
Mixed & Mastered By Iraklis Vlachakis
Arranged and Performed by Chickn
Produced by Angelos Krallis, Nikos Triantafyllou & Chickn

Photography by Eftychia Vlachou
Art by Angelos Krallis
Design and layout by Ifigenia Vasiliou

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CHICKN Athens, Greece

CHICKN is a rock band formed during the Christmas holidays of 2012 in Athens, Greece. It's a shape that evolves in time, occupying its necessary vital and expressive space while denying any prediction. It's a game, or at least it always starts as a game. ... more

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