Chisel - Set You Free

Chisel - Set You FreePUT THIS IN YOUR DEN for Ted Leo's origin story. Jangly garage pop with just enough edge to keep things interesting, this record is consistently great the entire way through. Chisel was labeled as mod revival, but it can just as easily be tossed into folk punk. If you're a long time fan, you're going to drool over the extra goodies in the package but, if you're new to the band, you'll be ecstatic just to toss these tunes on the table. Available on

The two-man unit and their close collaborators have continually expressed what an honor it is to be releasing music through Black Buffalo Records and Fat Beats

with track after track showing depth in lyricism and production

enhancing the loneliness of “Once I Had A Sweetheart” and laying bare the raw brilliance of “Black is the Colour

and atmospheric black metal styles into an emotive whole

Raw Poetic

He would say things like

all these years” on the latter

highlights the earliest phase of their transition from experimental hardcore band to transcendent exploratory collective

Of Ease Side

I believe I can fly

and abandoned all hopes for the things of this world

" Together