The Metropolis

Chad Valley

John Rogers | Wednesday 11 May, 2011 19:51

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11 May | Scala | 275 Pentonville Road N1 9NL

Oxford-based Hugo Manuel is a busy fella – when he’s not fronting Jonquil, he’s cooking up perfectly catchy electronic psychedelia as Chad Valley. The seven tracks on his forthcoming “Equatorial Ultravox” EP are never dull for a moment with new sounds coming at you from all directions; processed piano is adorned with synth squiggles, and harmonic ringing sings under vocodered male-female vocal interchanges. There’s a lot here to love – it’s like an upbeat Boards Of Canada. How it works live we’re curious to see, and Manuel takes Chad Valley to the big Scala stage on May 11th in support of Twin Shadow.

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