[Cover photo credit to Carl Farrugia (c.o. The Daydream Library Series)]
UK-based Noise Rock outfit Schande will release their debut LP Once Around on September 27, 2024 via The Daydream Library Series, the house record label of Ecstatic Peace Library operated by Thurston & Eva Moore.
The band, fronted by Thurston Moore Guitar Ensemble member Jen Chochinov, has shared the single “Palimpsest” from the album. It’s a love letter to Siouxsie & the Banshees’ Kaleidoscope.
Jen Chochinov says:
I can’t help but hear the Siouxsie influence every time we play the song. Plus, let’s be honest, ‘palimpsest’ is just a great word. I used a tuning I learned from my friend Darren who I had a recording project with years ago, forgot about it, and then when I started playing around with a 12 string guitar Thurston lent me it all came flooding back, like ‘oh yeaaaaaah. I wonder how this guitar would sound in that tuning?’ As it turns out, ‘rad’ is the answer to that question — just really dynamic and expansive and effortlessly creates a prismatic life of its own. Lyrically, the song reflects on patterns of behaviors that leave room for improvement.
Inspired by the works of writers such as Hannah Arendt and Adriana Cavarero, Once Around focuses on “notions of personal existence and subjectivity”.
As Chochinov puts it, the record consists of “contemplations on the ways in which we do and do not disclose ourselves to each other, our responsibilities towards ourselves and others, and the ways we do or do not acknowledge the experiences of others.”
The California-born Chochinov has been crafting Rock in DIY circles since the early 1990s. Solo and full band adventures throughout the years have included a split 7” with The Cribs and James Murphy’s pre-LCD Soundsystem group Speedking, playing the Indie Tracks festival (UK), and playing Happy Happy Birthday to Me’s Athens Pop Festival (US).
Since relocating to London in 2013, she has continued playing shows throughout the UK and US both solo and with her full band. In 2018 and 2019, she was a touring member of Thurston Moore’s Guitar Ensemble and played shows throughout the UK and Europe alongside James Sedwards (Nøught, Thurston Moore Group), Deb Googe (My Bloody Valentine, Thurston Moore Group), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Jem Doulton (Thurston Moore Group, The Oscillation), and Jonathan Leideker (Wobbly).
The Daydream Library Series independent record label just celebrated five years in operation. Thurston & Eva founded the label in 2018 to release the debut album Sistahs by London’s Black, feminist, Punk band Big Joanie and have since released recordings by Xopher Davidson, Seafoam Walls, Devon Ross, Katherina Bornefeld, Las Nubes and others.
Schande Live Dates:
Sept. 26 London, UK @ TBD
Oct. 19 Exeter, UK @ Exeter Cavern
Nov. 21 London, UK @ Cavendish Arms w/ BA Johnson & Panic Pocket
Jan. 25 Gloucester, UK @ TBD
