If Facbeook 'about' sections are anything to go by, Alex Chilltown has been "oversharing and underachieving since 2k13." The former, maybe, but as for the latter I'm not so convinced by - Alex seems to be doing alright tbh. In September, DIY label Art Is Hard released "Cwtch", the first single from his debut album Downer as part of their hand cut record series. The title is Welsh slang meaning affectionate hug, cupboard under the stairs or "safe place", and the track captures the magical indifference of growing up somewhere crap. Self described as "boredcore", Alex Chilltown creates catchy as hell odes for the terminally underwhelmed.Today, we're premiering the video for the next single "No Mixed Messages" - which actually appears in revers, so instead of smashing the life out of everything you can see a band putting their (toy) instruments back together for once. Someone had better redefine punk rock to mean, quite literally, "getting your shit together".Alex says: "Downer is about being bored of growing up in yr home town that's just lots of concrete, fast food outlets and chain nightclubs/pubs/shops. I guess trying to find some naive romance amongst all these weird failed renovations (I mean, have you seen Croydon?). It's mainly about all the victories and mistakes and how you eventually had to leave to actually grow up and go to university and how that presented its own situations and scenarios. It's for those 2AM revelations at house parties or clubs about how everything is totally fucked but totally ok at the same time."Watch below:
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Downer will be released through Havana Tapes as a run of red and black cassettes, each with unique artwork, on October 21 and is available to pre-order now.