Murderous Saturday Morning Cartoons

Chip Chop drops a new EP on Tuesday called Launch Blank. This is lazer bass fueled boom bap that uses an almost entirely electronic and heavy sound palette. It’s like digital woodshop, where the deep whir of engines fill the space, buzzsaw bass slices chip boards to the perfect shape, and nail gun drum pads hold everything in place. A mist of glitchy sawdust hangs in the air. The textures of this album are likely to take on a larger than life presence in the club, but there’s enough layers, warmth and progressiveness to keep it interesting during headphone listening, too. We streamed the neck-breaking title track “Launch Blank” a while back when it was featured on the Motion Sickness mixtape. But their label, Run Riot Records, recently released it for free download as a promo, so here it is again. (The gold-toothed, cancerous HTML character featured on the cover fits the sound of the EP perfectly.)