Emerging from the heart of Norwich, Chicanes are stepping into a bold new chapter. The burgeoning four-piece have unleashed their ferocious new single ‘Mammoth’ into the world, the first taste of their full-length debut album, set to be released later this summer.
Having carved out an impressive reputation for their raucous energy and genre-blurring sound, the band has emerged from hibernation and is redefining their identity with a fresh image, striking new visuals, and an upcoming collection of songs that signal a clear evolution in their music.
Recorded in Chelmsford with Adrian Bushby and mastered by George Perks, ‘Mammoth’ was meticulously honed and polished alongside the band’s other new material.
Having worked with esteemed artists such as Foo Fighters and Muse, two huge influences for Chicanes, Bushy has helped the band achieve a more layered, sonically rich, and thunderously heavy new sound.
Lyrically bolder, with killer hooks galore, ‘Mammoth’ marks Chicanes most sophisticated release to date, while remaining rooted in the driving intensity that’s earned them a loyal local following and growing attention.
With crushing guitars and booming drums reminiscent of the best of Deftones, twinned with soaring vocals that evoke early Royal Blood, the track truly lives up to its title, charging forward into the fray, mammoth sized in its power and ferocity, custom built and destined for future mosh pits.
On the track, lead singer Andy Lewis shared:
“In terms of Mammoth’s writing process, it was the third song we wrote for the album. It literally started with the initial riff, and we built on it from there. The first thing that came into my head when we started playing with all the fuzz was that it sounds big, hairy, and scary, like a mammoth.”
“I then incorporated the bass slide that’s poignant in the riff to emulate a beastly, primal animal noise as best I could. I wanted the theme to correlate to mammoths when it came to lyrics, so I tried to play on the imagery of a stampede in the chorus, with the subject of the song being about how I’m on a rampage of coming back better and stronger.”
“We didn’t want the song to be slow, so we kept the pace up with the drums. The chorus riff was done by accident. As we were packing up after rehearsal, I grabbed a guitar and just started experimenting. We liked how it goes from the stabby pauses after the chords to the fast paced, metal-sounding part in the chorus.”
With more new singles scheduled to drop soon ahead of the full album, Chicanes are primed and ready to make their mark. This isn’t just the next phase, it’s a reintroduction to their new sound and the band’s next incarnation.
Words by Ed Budds
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