Fall In: Chet Faker

Album Review: Chet Faker

This week's blog post is two firsts; a post by a guest blogger and an album review. Natalie Brunoli, journalism graduate of Bond University, passionate writer and music fan, put aside a little of her time review the recent album release from one of the (and her own) most anticipated acts of the upcoming music festival Splendour in the Grass - Chet Faker.

Chet Faker: Thinking in Textures

Chet Faker - Thinking in Textures

There’s a raw quality to this music, this album. Chet Faker tells his stories with a sound that pulls you in. It’s like intense, whispery sex. It’s punchy, it’s hot, it’s clever, and it’s more than a little bit exciting.

From the EP Thinking in Textures, the lead song I’m Into You, kick starts an album laden with smooth undertones, heavy melodies and beats that lick your skin. (I still can’t quite make out what he says to the girl mid-song, but it’s super sexy nonetheless.)

Soulful and sensual, you’re led on a journey of electro-funk born from acoustic heritages and a talent that is unmistakeable in the structural brilliance of every track.

And if ever a cover was done well, it’s No Diggity. Chet Faker takes the Blackstreet original, adds some class and blends it with nonchalance and effortless cool that makes you slide your nodding head into each slinky beat. Success.

Cigarettes and Chocolate gains some speed, gives you time to breathe (or take a cold shower) and lets you fall into the music. The track bursts with energy and meaningful peaks and troughs of fullness and smallness that complement each other.

A definite flavour runs riot through the album, but somehow each song manages to stand on its own, unique in every sense of the word.

If Thinking in Textures were a day, it would be the haziest Sunday afternoon you could imagine.

You find Chet Faker on Soundcloud, Twitter and Facebook.  If you'd like to connect with this blog post's author Natalie you can follow her on twitter, or check out her tumblr to for more of her thoughts.