CHILLY GONZALES - Gonzo - LP - Red Vinyl [SEP 13]

LP - Limited edition heavyweight red vinyl with printed inner sleeve and insert.   

After 12 years of instrumental albums (ranging from a pair of Solo Pianos, chamber music, collaborative albums with Boys Noize, Jarvis Cocker and Plastikman and even a best-selling Christmas record), Chilly Gonzales has a lot to get off his chest. The notebooks that sat unfilled since 2011’s orchestral rap opus “The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales” started to fill up again in early 2022 after ending a lengthy decade of psychoanalysis. Coincidence? Hardly.

Behind the wordplay and name-dropping (Ron Jeremy, Marie Kondo, Genghis Khan and Phillip Glass to cite a few) the songs that made it to the new album Gonzo reveal an ongoing tension between persuasion and confession, delusion and self-awareness and finally, gratitude. The tension between creativity and commerce also continues to be a career-long exploration for Gonzo. But is this truly a rap album? Instrumental pieces such as the Stravinsky-esque “Fidelio” or the tearjerking “Eau de Cologne” will remind listeners of Gonzo’s extravagant “musical genius” persona, as the words and rhymes from previous verses settle into their ears.

Tracklist: 

1.    Gonzo
2.    Surfing the Crowd
3.    High As a Kite
4.    Fidelio
5.    Open the Kimono (Feat. Bruiser Wolf)
6.    Neoclassical Massacre
7.    Cadenza
8.    F*CK WAGNER
9.    I.C.E.
10.    Eau De Cologne
11.    Poem