Recorded:December 2014 - January 2015
Released:April 20th, 2015
Album length:40:55
Label:Triangular Sounds
Vs. Galore is Chick Quest's debut album, released in early 2015 to glowing reviews. It is a unique mashup of post-punk, garage rock, and 60's Western soundtracks from the likes of Ennio Morricone. While on the surface Vs. Galore seemed to blend arbitrary, incompatible genres of music, critics were extremely impressed with the album's cohesive flow and distinctive sound.
Download on BandcampProduced by Ryan White.
Recorded at Listencareful Studios in mid December of 2014. Additional recording took place at Fraurauh Studios and Stark White Studios over December 2014 and January 2015. Mixed and mastered by Alexander Lausch at Listencareful Studios in February 2015. All recording, mixing, and mastering took place in sunny Vienna, Austria.
All words and music written by Ryan Stark White (BMI).
Album photography and design by Ryan White.
Chick Quest are:
Ryan White: vocals, guitars, Rhodes piano, organ, programming and effects
Iris Rauh: drums
Magdalena Kraev: bass
Additional help:
Christian Sonderegger: trumpet
Special Thanks to:
Alexander Lausch, C.K. Koch, Christian Sonderegger (for saving the day), everybody at Wiener Handwerk (especially Markus Tozzer and Marc Jarabe), Christoph Berndl, Simone Sgaga, Thekla Kaischauri, Julia Boyle, and Robin "Technotronic" Jessup.
More information can be found at www.chickquest.com.
Extra loving support for www.listencareful.com and www.wienerhandwerk.com.
Why Chick Quest flew under my radar for this long is beyond me. With their debut album released just this year, they’re new. By combining post-punk and classic western film sounds, they’re sick. And oh man, do they have a knack for music. This band feels like Devotchka’s gypsy-punk meets The Rapture’s revivalist dance-punk. Their self-released debut is called Vs. Galore and it moves from chaos to order with something close to elegance — which is exactly what you’d want.
- NewSickMusic (US)
Over the last few years, bands like Parquet Courts, Nude Beach, King Tuff, and FIDLAR have revived that [original punk] energy and spirit in ways I never got to hear growing up and it has been glorious. With their new self-released debut, Vs. Galore, Vienna’s Chick Quest have joined that group and added another ‘album of the year’ candidate to top of the pile.
- The Big Take-Over (US)
Mixing jittery beats and desert surf-rock with American ex-pat Ryan White’s desperate, crime flick lyricism, the album is beach party movie music for post-punk fans.
- CMJ (US)
Writing a review of the band’s debut album Vs. Galore was really hard. I kept finding myself hitting the laptop keys with one finger, not so much typing words as keeping beat with the tracks. And that was only when I could actually stop myself from flailing my arms with abandon while bouncing my head and tapping my feet to the wicked bass lines and snappy percussion. I can’t remember the last time an album made me want to so badly say, 'The hell with writing a review, I just want to dance to this!'
- Fourculture (US,UK,CA)
This is an outstanding album that is so far removed from the mainstream that it has cult classic written all over it.
- Unsigned & Independent (IE)
Vs Galore has immediately made Chick Quest one of the bands I am in urgent need of seeing live. I think, and this is just going by the record, that they are a band that HAVE to be seen live in order to really get their sound. They have this Gogol Bordello feel to their sound, meaning they sound like excited kids who are bouncing around after having too much lemonade. It’s absolutely brilliant and it needs to be played so loud.
- Gypsy Death And You (UK)
Apparently, Vienna didn’t have any clubs playing music that [the band] wanted to dance to. I might add that most clubs don’t play music that Chick Quest have come up with, whether in Austria or Australia. I mean, this is a band who said that there wasn’t enough Spaghetti Western indie rock in the world and set out to rectify that very problem.
There’s a fun blend of styles, not just from song to song but within them.
- Semplesize (AU)
Not to rely on other bands’ sounds, the brass breakdown sets it apart from being just another similar sounding knock off like so many bands settle for. With just the right amount of rock reference and creative spin, Chick Quest do an excellent job of standing out in a natural, unforced way.
- Peter Getty Music (US)
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