I will be attending Monolith Festival next weekend, and I am excited about the festival’s recent addition of Portland, Oregon’s Hockey. I love The Rapture, and Hockey’s sound is eerily similar at times. I know that this Portland group must have heard The Rapture’s 2006 album “Pieces of the People We Love” the opening track “Too Fake” on Hockey’s “Mind Chaos” patterns itself directly after “Whoo! Alright, Yeah… Uh Huh” on The Rapture’s album. Fortunately, for both Hockey and our ears the album diverges from this point on. If you like Ghostland Observatory, The Rapture, Miss Fairchild or !!! I think you will appreciate Hockey. I’m excited about seeing them, and hopefully they will more than make up for Chester French’s recent action of dropping out of the festival. Overall, Mind Chaos is a great album that displays a greater diversity of sound than The Rapture’s album, and at times dabbles in many different musical memories while fresh the entire time. Enjoy these two tracks from the album. “Song Away” conveys visions of Mellencamp, and  “3am Spanish” brings some Tokyo Police Club style guitar and bass work. Don’t forget to support the artists…

3am Spanish – Hockey – Mind Chaos

Song Away – Hockey – Mind Chaos