![]() Recently canceling a tour due to immigration troubles, Chin is planning one this summer with the classic troupe My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult. She's got an almost mysterious background both in and out of music - only adding to her appeal to me of course. She auditioned once for Garbage, toured with Pigface and at one time fronted a hardcore all-girl troupe called Crunch. It's hard to peg her down somewhere - she's been around the world beginning her younger years as an Airforce brat and this seems to have produced in her an eclectic style and personality from the bombardment of various cultures. One of the more exciting releases I've received as of late, Meg Lee Chin is a surprise breaking aggressively and heavily into the hard techno electronic scene. "REVIEW: Meg Lee Chin - "Piece and Love"" Still, in a more fair world Meg Lee Chin would sell tons of records. The only real flaw is the ending Subgenius mix of "Swallowing You", which is stretched out to over ten tedious minutes. "Sweet Thing" is a hallucinatory track about the agonies of bad nights out, featuring the spoken word of Mel Palmer. "London" shows a calmer side, opening with a sad piano and evolving into a slow hip hop beat and sad harmonies. In the duet "Deeper" Jennie Bellestar from The Bellestars adds a cool, poisonous touch. It's kickstarted by a fuzzy drum loop and has an amazing chorus, where Meg shouts a distorted "Helter skelter/Where's your shelter?". The opening track "Thing" is equally fabulous. The absolutely incredible "Heavy Scene" sounds like something from Mark Stewart's "Control Data" album - a deep, funky bass line, squeaking synths and cool dub echoes - but minus the paranoia and plus a healty dose of sexiness. "I saw the best minds of my generation/Running on empty/Super glued to the TV" she sings in "Nutopia", and displays the same fear of wasting your life, of not achieving anything, that has fuelled the works of Trent Reznor, Alec Empire and Raymond Watts. "Piece and Love" is namely an album that's pulsating with energy, humour, pop choruses and a production part industrial, part hip hop, part dub. When I listen to Meg Lee Chin's debut solo album "Piece and Love" I can't help but wonder why she hasn't ended up on record before, except for a few Pigface tracks. Hopefully this CD gets more word of mouth - this is just good enough to really become popular, yet stay true to its roots. Stand out tracks? I'd have to go with track 1, "thing", track 2, "heavy scene" and track 5, "swallowing you". The music is raw but very tight, the vocals send a refreshing jolt to the brain, and everything flows together very smooth. As said before, for those of you who liked her raw styles on stage, here it is. She's toured with Pigface for years, as a number of you know. She declined, since the band wanted her to basically follow their set rules. Also, she was asked to be the lead singer of Garbage a year before Shirley Manson was chosen. One of her former bands, "Crunch", holds the distinction of being the first Western band to play in the Ukraine after the Soviet Republic fell. ![]() Chin: She's been engineering and making music for a number of years. Her voice cuts through the mix with just a ripping 's clear that this girl knows exactly what she's doing when she's engineering music.Ī bit of background on Ms. The production was mainly done in her London apartment by herself, with Atkins & Lee "Bagman" Fraser doing the final mix and basically smoothing (not too much though) it all out. I guess it could be likened to the direction of Rx, but not as polished. The music styles? Hard to really nail down. It's probably the most mellow one on the CD, but it's definitely a gem. Her track from "A New High in Low", nutopia, is on here. Her energy live definitely translates well into an album form. Now it's September and her full-length CD has finally been released. Check my earlier review if you don't believe me, y0. She easily had the best track on "A New High in Low" - nutopia - and the track from Chemical Warfare (mix mix bang bang) was orgasmic, IMO. actually, no, it's been since I saw Pigface live over a year ago, I've been in love with Meg Lee Chin & her vocal stylings. Ever since I heard that "Sexy Beat" comp from Invisible.
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