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Chad Offer Park n’ Ride Single

April 18, 2025 nathan.lankford Leave a comment

Portland’s Chad definitely know the way to my heart, quickly grabbing me with light snare snaps and a delectable little keyboard line; it sets the mood and blankets the room with warmth before Sarah Lane enters the room with her silken vocal lines. A little subtle change hits with a punctuated synth line and growling bit of vocals, allowing the track to break up the forward push, especially when the second round opens up into a big instrumental breakdown that gets haunted by Lane’s voice. This song will appear on the group’s debut LP, which is slated for release this May.

CHAD Park n’ Ride

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CHAD Share Isolation in Advance of Good Talk EP

May 13, 2020 nathan.lankford Leave a comment

This Friday, Portland band CHAD will be dropping their sophomore release, Good Talk EP. Before you get a chance to dip your toes in the full EP, we wanted you to sample a little of the sweet sounds crafted for the release. Sarah Lane’s vote is as captivating as ever, almost manipulating the song with her voice; the synth work seems to move around the rise and fall of her notes. There’s a slightly ominous texture entering in the song’s back end, though ultimately you get this thoughtful dreaminess that pervades through the 3 minutes. Look for Good Talk this Friday!

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Pleased to Meet You: Chad

August 23, 2019 nathan.lankford Leave a comment

Okay, so I know a lot of Chad’s but this is Chad, the band! It’s the new project from Sarah Lane and her partner Trevor; Sarah appeared on these pages quite a bit not too long ago. The band have only recently formed, and already there’s an EP on the way; it features the slow dance jam below. For me, this song is all about the sonic landscape the band have set up; it relies upon this precision rhythm moments that steady the entire tune, allowing for the guitar to move in and out and provide accents where needed. The important in all of that is that it rights the ship, so to speak, leaving this playground for Lane to put down her smoky vocals as the song bobs and weaves its way through. Their EP will drop later this Fall.

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