La Chinga Stream “Light it Up”; Primal Forces Out Oct. 6
The shenanigans of La Chinga‘s forthcoming LP, Primal Forces — the Vancouver trio’s first LP since 2018’s Beyond the Sky (review here) — are immediate and multifaceted. There’s some getting it together noise, classic heavy rock modernized from ’70s influences, and a Van Halen-style break in the second half. The message is clear: La Chinga are rock and rollers. They work from an ideology of what that represents in their raucous grooves and brash, Mötley Crüe/KISS-ish chorus plastering, and as the opening cut from the album, yeah, “Light it Up” serves this purpose remarkably well, dropping hints of Fu Manchu along the way for good (and fuzzy) measure.
And before I turn you over to the PR wire info, you should absolutely know that my tone in talking about the song, the band, the record to come, is all wrong. That paragraph above? It’s fine. I don’t see any typos or blatant misinformation. I certainly stand by what I said. But if I was actually to paint you a picture of what’s going on in “Light it Up” or with La Chinga generally, there’s just about no way I’d not be throwing around images of beer flying through the air, muscle cars, the odd bit o’ smoke and a louder party than phrases like “work from an ideology” can ever hope to capture. Still, one does one’s best and we move forward. Maybe by the time the album comes out I’ll be more fun.
Not holding out tons of hope there, but however you say it the song is a blast. It’s streaming at the bottom of this post, of course. Info came from the PR wire:
LA CHINGA share new single “Light It Up”; new album “Primal Forces” due out October 6th on Ripple Music
Vancouver-based hard rock power trio LA CHINGA have inked a worldwide deal with Ripple Music for the release of their fourth album “Primal Forces”, due out on October 6th. Stream their boisterous new single “Light It Up” on all streaming services now!
LA CHINGA is a hard rock power trio with psychedelic powers sitting on the world’s edge in Vancouver, Canada. Drawing from Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, MC5, and their own superbad habits, the band has established a beachhead with two albums on Detroit’s cult label Small Stone Records and a penetrating buzz across Canada.
Their upcoming fourth album “Primal Forces” was written and recorded during the tumultuous times of riots, lockdowns and pandemic: a perfect ground for dystopian vibes to permeate the lyrics and album storyline. “The themes of love, sex, death, and hell in a handbasket, so why not go for it and go out with a bang are what drive this album to new territory for us,” says the band. The rock’n’roll is heavy, the riffs are flying and so is LA CHINGA. Madness, frustration, joy, terror and ecstasy all mingle in a rip-roaring fusion of electric hooks, hip-swaying grooves and choruses to be sung along til the world collapses!
New album “Primal Forces” Out October 6th on Ripple Music
US preorder: https://ripplemusic.bigcartel.com/products?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=chinga
Bandcamp preorder: https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/primal-forces
TRACKLIST:
1. Light It Up
2. Ride The Dragon
3. Bolt Of Lightning
4. Backs To The Wall
5. Witch’s Heart
6. The Call
7. Stars Fall From The Sky
8. Electric Eliminator
9. Rings Of Power
10. Motor Boogie
La Chinga was born in Vancouver, BC in 2012, although in reality it was conceived about a year earlier when bassist/vocalist Carl Spackler was surfing in SoCal and his Chicano beach buddies kept hailing each other with the mysterious phrase: “La chingaaaaa!”
Drummer/vocalist Jay Solyom and guitarist/vocalist Ben Yardley—also a noted professor of theremin—were conscripted shortly after, both veterans of Vancouver’s notoriously dead-end music scene, both beautifully obscene in their own right. La Chinga’s self-titled debut record was rushed out of a makeshift studio in 2013 on nothing but fumes and the liberating force of not giving a shit, landing like a hairball crossed with a stink bomb inside a world of yoga pant commerce, condo developments, and Macbook “musicians.” This was a revolutionary act—or maybe a devolutionary one, at least.
Meanwhile, Spackler was busy pouring all of his demented ’70s obsessions into wild three-minute homemade music videos, finding the visual language of fuzz itself inside shitty horror films as he furnished the great infernal drive-in of his mind. Somehow, miraculously, this charming brew conspired to make La Chinga the hottest bunch of stoned ape groovers to hot wheel out of the Pacific Northwest since forever.
“Freewheelin'” followed in 2016 on Detroit’s Small Stone Records, and so did unhinged tours of Europe, more year-end accolades, festival slots (420 Fest, Sasquatch), and Spackler’s continuing evolution as the Orson Welles of retard-o-tronic found footage scuzz. And then things got serious: in late 2017, La Chinga entered Vancouver’s fabled Warehouse studio with no-less-fabled producer Jamey Koch (DOA, Copyright, Tragically Hip). The result? “Beyond the Sky”, 45 minutes of sublimely confident freedom rock, sometimes meaty and beaty, sometimes glam-handed, and occasionally even dirtbag pretty, where the listener gets rolled, boogied, and otherwise supernaturally conveyed well beyond the sky, maybe even beyond ridiculous. This is how it feels to get chinga’d, amigos. Now the fiery trio is gearing up to release their new offering “Primal Forces”, to be unleashed in the fall of 2023 via Ripple Music.
LA CHINGA is
Carl Spackler – Vocals & Bass
Ben Yardley – Guitars, Vocals & Moog Synth
Jay Solyom – Drums Percussion & Bg vocals
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