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Listening to ‘New Chain,’ the debut album from Small Black, is like waking up in a Wham video with a 104-degree fever. The sounds are familiar — particularly if you’re old enough to remember MTV’s first decade — but the songs are too murky and disorienting to qualify as neo-New Wave rehashes. According to founder and lead singer Josh Kolenik, the Brooklyn quartet owes its unique aesthetic to a particular piece of vintage equipment.
“A few years ago, I got really into the Casio ’80s keyboard, and I started to think that sounded really fresh compared to things I was hearing,” Kolenik tells Spinner. “That was the first instrument I ever had, so I was kind of getting back to my roots as a musician. Doing so, I just fell in love with that sound again — the gloss of an ’80s pop song that most of the time I don’t even know who the artist is. I’ve heard it so many times walking through the grocery store. You’ll hear them on the radio now and you can still sing all the words.”
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