Onward Chariots

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Onward Chariots
Take Me To Somewhere
Mint 400 Records
ADDS 11/3/15
DIGITAL ONLY

“frantic, sunshine chamber pop” - The Dadada

“wonderful harmonies and sweet hushed melodies” - Powerpopaholic

Scenes come and go, but songs are forever. Just ask Ben Morss, the mastermind behind Brooklyn’s Onward Chariots. With Take Me To Somewhere, their brand new EP, the band is turning a new page.

Ben had already established an impressive indiepop pedigree in California before moving to Brooklyn, playing keyboards for bands like Cake and enjoying college radio success with his band, The Pilgrims. In New York, a side project called Chariots of Tuna grew into Onward Chariots, featuring a new lineup of Brooklyn musicians who shared Ben’s love for jangly pop, the Beach Boys and the Shins. With Onward Chariots, Ben found a new outlet for his prolific songwriting. The band’s home studio recordings catapulted them to indie pop nirvana, earning praise, airplay and glowing reviews from Italy to Brazil.

For the new EP, the duo recorded in an honest-to-goodness studio with none other than fab producer Jesse Gander, known for his work with Japandroids and White Lung. Friends fleshed out the sound with extra vocals, trumpet, and drums. The result shows Ben’s songs in a whole new light. The music still chimes and sparkles like a vintage Silvertone guitar, but with a newly found muscularity and cohesion.

Take Me To Somewhere blends the guitar attack of bands like Japandroids with some experimental touches and a driving rhythm section that would not have been out of place on an LCD Soundsystem recording. With Ben’s vocals front and center as always, the EP is giving new luster and polish to his tunes.

Take Me To Somewhere should give Ben Morss’ songs the audience they deserve, while still appealing to the many fans worldwide of Onward Chariots’ brand of melodic, sparkly indiepop. Onward indeed!


RIYL: Say Hi, Cake, The Pilgrims, The Beach Boys, The Shins
TRY: #1, 2, 4

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