Hey Champ

A new group I recently came across through the hours spent on Spotify is called Hey Champ. They aren't a very well known group. For instance, to find out more information on this group, there was no Wikipedia page or allmusic.com overview. I had to resort to a Wikipedia page in Spanish, which you'd think you could turn the language to English, but no. Once it's in Spanish, you can never go back. But that just proves that Foreign Language in high school HAS A PURPOSE. Continuing with my original motivation for this blog, Hey Champ is an electropop/alternative group that I really like. They have some killer beats, with tones of variety. They remind me a lot of Two Door Cinema Club, which is another one of my favorite bands. However, I wouldn't say that Hey Champ are incredible lyricists, because they aren't. They are repetitive. I feel like the meaning and ideas behind the lyrics are there, they just don't expand well on those topics. But I really enjoy listening to them because I feel like every song is different. Lead singer Saam Hagshenas has a voice that I would say is comparable to the lead singers of Two Door Cinema Club, Phoenix, and Passion Pit, except imagine all of their voices put together. That is what I think of when I hear Hey Champ. One of my favorite songs by the group is probably on of their better known songs called, "Cold Dust Girl."

I think what I like about it so much is the beat and how it kicks off in the very beginning. It is kind of 80s retro. It quickly jumps out of that sound into a more modern jam, but overall I think all of the different sounds, whether they're artificially made or natural all compliment each other really well.

"Cold Dust Girl"

It might me a bad thing to some people, but some of their songs sound like 80's-90's jazzercise music. I don't personally mind it because a large part of the time I spend listening to music is done while I workout or run. And I don't exactly want to be listening to The Beatles "Let it Be" as I am running up a huge hill. It's just not as motivating, if you know what I mean.

Another song I like by them is called "Shake."

which oddly sounds a lot like Two Door Cinema Club's "Something Good Can Work Here."

But, I don't really mind. I am excited to see what Hey Champ puts out next because their last full album was released I think in 2010 and since then, they have only released singles.