Builder's Brew

The Chap, the pan-European, London-based, modern pop group, are back with a mini-album entitled Builder’s Brew, a collection of remixes and cover versions plus some new original material.

The opener, a new edit of recent single “Proper Rock” has already enjoyed considerable airplay. But why does the song contain a very camp-sounding fire fighter’s choir fronting some kind of fierce sci-fi indie rock combo, demanding “Proper songs about girls and clubbing”? Do they mean that? And what’s with the scary low voice saying “Global Beats, Bamboo Shoot” in that fearsome house/funk/rock track, called “Ethnic Instrument”, remixed here by Parisian disco superstar Joakim. Never mind the cover versions of “Young And Joyful Bandit”—a beautiful song from Fassbinder’s last film—and the all-time Chap classic, their version of Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got To Do With It”. It doesn’t sound much like Tina Turner but instead contains the best violin solo in the world. Fans have been asking for its release for years.