Blog: State Magazine

In these genre-bending days of crossovers, where it seems nobody wants to hear if there's not at least a smidgeon of electronica or a smattering of dub-step in your music, it's refreshing to hear a band doing a straightforward pop-rock album. On their debut, Arnold Sideways , Dublin quartet The Chapman Society stick primarily to the meat and two veg blueprint of drums, bass, guitar and vocals, with a string section augmenting the sound when they slow it down for the obligatory ballads ('Heartbreak', 'Day After Day'). The twin vocals of Russell Keogh and Sean [...]