Written by Shea Roney | Photo Courtesy of The Laughing Chimes

Every Wednesday, the ugly hug shares a playlist personally curated by an artist/band that we have been enjoying. This week we have a collection of songs put together by the Athens, Ohio-based project The Laughing Chimes.

The Laughing Chimes began as the sibling project of Evan (guitar, vox) and Quinn (drums) Seurkamp, releasing their first album back in 2020 titled In This Town, a collection which was embedded in the jangly jurisdiction of Midwest prophets and pop-rock love-birds who did their time and got their hands dirty. Now with the addition of Avery Bookman on bass, The Laughing Chimes followed through with the release of Whispers in the Speech Machine, bringing the band’s collective sounds into a deeper, much more haunting pool of reverberated grifters, ecstatic townies and irresistible melodies. The beating heart of this record meets at an intriguing point in time – those few moments where the warmth of life meets the inevitability of decay; the in-between where things are strange, indiscernible and eerily still. Writing songs to the superstitions in our day-to-days, teetering between this world and the beyond, The Laughing Chimes’ pop-licked melodies and cavity-filled guitars help to open the door and see what ghosts are waiting on the other side – a real who’s-who of the localized ghostly scene.

About the playlist, the band says;

The theme is songs that make me hyper nostalgic for a specific moment.

Listen to The Laughing Chimes’ playlist HERE

You can listen to Whispers in the Speech Machine out now via Slumberland Records. You can also purchase it on vinyl.