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On their spellbinding sophomore album, InchWhispers in the Speech Machine,Inch the young Ohio siblings from The Laughing Chimes fully embrace their Southern Gothic influences, cannily balancing the light of their infectious pop with the shadow of their rust belt environs. While attending an afterschool music program at their local opera house, Evan and his brother Quinn began recording The Laughing Chimes' debut album InchIn This Town,Inch released in 2020. A string of well-received digital singles and a cassette EP for Slumberland followed, dazzling savvy pop fans with their Paisley Underground-inflected jangle that owes as much to the Flying Nun sound as it does to 80s Athens, GA.The eight assured songs of InchWhispers in the Speech MachineInch prove The Laughing Chimes deserve the attention and accolades, while their approaches to songwriting and sonic aesthetics continue to evolve. InchSoutheast Ohio is the foothills of Appalachia, so it has this indescribable mood and atmosphere to it,Inch guitarist/vocalist Evan Seurkamp told The Big Takeover. InchSometimes there's a haunting weight of decay you want to escape, but at the same time there is some sort of strange romanticism surrounding ghost towns. We've tried to channel those moods to add more regional flavor into our sound.Inch Details 1. Atrophy 2. He Never Finished the Thought 3. Country Eidolism 4. Cats Go Car Watching 5. A Promise to Keep 6. High Beams 7. Fluorescent Minds 8. Mudhouse Mansion
