Artist Profile

“People probably think that we're horrible northern monsters that are going to come down and eat their children, but there’s more to it than that,” recently admitted The Chapman Family’s lead singer, Kingsley. Indeed, he’s right, because despite his band’s flirtations with the sounds of Berlin-era Bowie and modern goths, Editors, The Chapman Family’s misery really stems from their romantic vision of what life could be like when compared to how it really is; that’ll be why they’ve called their debut album, Burn Your Town, then. Odds are that they won’t be a hit with your grandparents, but whoever listened to the old folk, anyway?