Lick Your Ticket

Chikinki | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 13, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Kitty Yo
• ASIN: B000A7IK78
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #897,060 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Assassinator 13

2. Ether Radio

3. Drink

4. Hate TV

5. Staple Nation

6. All Eyes

7. Scissors Paper Stone [#]

8. To Sacrifice a Child

9. Bombs [#]

10. Like It or Leave It [#]

11. Time

12. Forever

Editorial Reviews

Chikinki's 2004 album 'Lick Your Ticket' sounds like nothing else around. A drug-fuelled cocktail of synthesizer madness, rock power & attitude, Chikinki make everyone else look positively square. Opening with strutting anthem 'Assassinator 13' the boys take the listener on a journey into the future that encompasses the spacey rock of 'Ether Radio', filth-fest 'Like It Or Leave It' blip-rocking 'Hate TV' & the magnetic 'To Sacrifice A Child'. This is music for the ambitious made by the ambitious, one day all records will be this good. 12 tracks. Kitty-Yo.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Ticket to Ride, August 29, 2004

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altmalta "www.alternativemalta.com" (Malta) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lick Your Ticket (Audio CD)

Whether you want to admit it or not post-punk has dominated 2004. The Futureheads, TV on The Radio and !!! just to name a few and, yes Chikinki is part of this musical movement.
Chikinki are not just copyist though. In fact I would say they are innovators as synthesizers, loops and sensor pads dominate their sound.

Saying that the band do come from Bristol, which always had a tradition of using electronic instruments merged with traditional ones.
There is good stuff here and melodies aplenty. `Ether Radio' could easily be a hit single in a parallel universe. Same with `Hate TV', oh and practically half the rest of the album. Each and every song is a blustery streak of manic energy that rushes through your cranium and snuggles itself into your brain.
Another aspect of this album is the way it sounds different with every listen. I have had this album in my stereo for days and I'm STILL discovering something new and questioning it. Like, for example, are those violins crossed with a Morricone backdrop with crunchy guitars on `Staple Diet'? and so on.
In a year of great debuts `Lick your Ticket' is another to join this ever growing list and its a clear sign that British music is gaining it's feet again.

5.0 out of 5 stars My Album of the Year, July 16, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Lick Your Ticket (Audio CD)

This is the best album I've heared this year. I saw them live last September and the CD doesn't dissapoint. About as original as a band can be these days . They mix electro pop and guitar rock in a way that no guitar fanatic can disslike.

5.0 out of 5 stars Ticketlicking Good!, June 26, 2004

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Jones "biddwiser" (Manchester) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lick Your Ticket (Audio CD)

This is an awesome debut album by a fantastic electro-indie five piece from Bristol, England. I am lucky enough to have seen them live several times , and this is a great recorded representation, capturing their energy perfectly- the beauty of Chikinki is in their clever combination of rocking riffs and futuristic synths and the singer's androgenous vocals complete the unusual mix, creating what I think is the sexiest, slickest poprock the world has heard for a long time.

Album highlights? Well, there are twelve, but if I had to pick one it would have to be the penultimate song Time. They may sing "time is my enemy" but I think the time is just right for a band that perfectly marry guitars with fat beats, and I predict that 2004 will be all about Chikinki.