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A Clockwork Apple

by Chore Boy & Brad Kemp

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about

A horrorshow pop-disk for the whole banda!!

Chore Boy & Brad Kemp’s latest project gives a nod to Anthony Burgess’s 1962 masterpiece amid a bezoomny year of dystopian tailspinning. A Clockwork Apple finds Chores attempting to unpack his baggage in a burning house; Kemp’s psychedelic soundscapes gleefully driving the chaos. It’s a concise offering of memorable choruses, fervent rap performances, and 60s-era musicality.

The turbulence of the past two years - a global pandemic, looming uncertainty about the future, a groundswell of grassroots activism - inspired the rapper/producer duo to draw influence from the 1960s - another time of cultural upheaval and shifting paradigms. Everything from the album's title to the samples used throughout derive from that era - though this by no means constrains the two in showcasing their own unique styles and breaking new ground. Brad Kemp's production is entirely sample-based; there are no programmed drums and no additional music added, yet each track sounds like a fully original production. Chore Boy raps with a gleeful cynicism from track to track, brandishing unconventional flows and catchy, acerbic hooks on every song.

A Clockwork Apple is the sixth mixtape made by the pair during the pandemic, roughly 1000 miles' distance separating them for the first time in their collaborative career. Like everyone else, they adapted and worked remotely - brainstorming ideas and making beats in Zoom sessions, bouncing the resulting files back and forth on Dropbox until the songs were done. Kemp cheffed up instrumentals and handled mixing from his professional home studio in Chicago; Chore Boy recorded vocals into a cheap mic perched on a poorly-insulated cupboard shelf in Connecticut. The final product was then paired with cover art by longtime collaborator & Chicago visual artist Patriac Coakley.

We hope you enjoy it.

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released October 21, 2021

Raps by Chore Boy
Beats by Brad Kemp
Art by Patriac Coakley

Recorded in a cupboard in Connecticut

Mixed & mastered by Brad Kemp
at Second Bedroom Studio (Chicago; 2021)
www.secondbedroomstudio.com

Special thanks to Stephanie McCullough, Lauren Kemp, Kevin Rahrig, Rashè Waters, Kal Hollands, Geoff Wilson and The Bastards of the Underground

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