''Chat and Business'' is the debut album from British

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art rock Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements. Art rock aspires to elevate rock from entertainment to an art ...

band Ikara Colt. It was released on

Fantastic Plastic Records Fantastic Plastic Records is an independent record label based in London and Brighton. Fantastic Plastic was formed by lifelong music fan Darrin Robson in a Co. Down attic. Originally specialising in mail-order only rare and collectible records ...

on 4 March 2002 (released in Europe and the USA on Epitaph Records, and in Japan by Maximum 10 Records. The record was disqualified from the UK album charts as accompanying stickers, which the purchaser was to match with the captions below spaces on the cover of the album, were deemed to be a free gift.

Critical reception

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'' called the album "speedy, volatile, spittle- dripping, and, above all, filled with an energy unique to frustrated and bored college students." ''

Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to ...

'' dismissed it as "art-rock by the numbers."

Track listing

#One Note - (''2:18'') #Rudd - (''2:59'') #Bishop's Son - (''2:59'') #City of Glass - (''4:03'') #Pop Group - (''1:53'') #Belgravia - (''3:03'') #Sink Venice - (''2:44'') #After This - (''3:08'') #At the Lodge - (''3:50'') #Here We Go Again - (''2:58'') #May B 1 Day - (''4:33'') #Video Clip Show - (''10:25'') #Memory (Japanese bonus) #Your Vain Attempts (Japanese bonus) #Escalate (Hidden Track / Japanese bonus) A hidden track 'Escalate' is included after ''Video Clip Show'', it starts on 8:37. This track was a live favourite, and is a re-recording of the Sink Venice b-side. the album was purposely made to run at 45 minutes long, the length of 1 side of a c90. All songwriting credits on the album are given to '' Ikara Colt'' The European pressing is a double cd, CD2 features the ''Basic Instructions'' EP tracks: #bring it to me #may b 1 day #2 #don't they know #panic

References

2002 debut albums Ikara Colt albums Fantastic Plastic Records albums {{2000s-alt-rock-album-stub