Old Composer REACTS to CHON SPLASH | A Decomposers Point of View

CHON SPLASH REACTION was a blast. They have an abstract approach in their arrangements and composition coupled with their not-so-processed sound left me really feeling their music.

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[DearFreja]

Man, Polyphia and Ichika Nito took over the conversation on this type of music, but CHON has been doing it so good for so many years now.

[maxalottalovin]

"Intimate" is the best way to describe Chon for sure. That's always the word that comes to mind when I hear "Rosewood." Thanks for giving them a listen!

[Dannyhota]

I literally had to stop what I was doing to watch this, love your reactions man.

[kpsig]

Chon sounds more organic that Polyphia, so I would suspect that it should be easier for them to perform live shows with a minimal loss of fidelity (or even be better)

[cafoEQ]

You should check out The Contortionist - Language I: Intuition & Language II: Conspire

[geoffnolan]

Saw these guys live twice and they sounded just like the record. Love the reactions and love to see your perspective.

[raghavkandhari]

Please go to Covet after this, Yvette Young will blow your mind. My recommendation would be Falkor

[MrKawika]

Perfect Pillow is my favorite CHON song

[nilssonschmillson]

I love Chons “bright” and “wistful” approach to the sound and composition.

[CuttoothsRoom]

Very cool, I've never heard of Chon. Nice sounding jazzy/prog rock sound. Mahalos for the upload.

[drphdmd]

Hey hey! Chon is quite fun music. I dig their tunes, even some of those with vocals (though I feel their instrumental stuff is far superior).

[Isaiah_McIntosh]

I think it was on the player's pick podcast that mario and eric (the two guitarists) said they would enter a writing a mode where they get in the room together for hours and hours for as many days as necessary to hammer out their stuff. Bassists for chon tend to change per record and touring cycle although back here they were working with drew nowadays they mainly work with Mario's cousin. In the early days they would've written the drums for nathan (drummer/Mario's younger brother) as they taught him to play so they could have someone on the demo tape. Nowadays I think drums are written mostly by Nathan's teacher but nathan clearly has his own ideas for some of the songs when you compare the live performance to record. So the guess that it's a lot more traditionally constructed was a good one. It would be cool to hear you check out Knot by them. It's a personal favourite, although you probably get enough suggestions already.

[dstain]

Between Polyphia and Chon you're hitting some of my favorite bands with these videos! As someone who's not a musician I love learning the technical reason why I like these bands so much. Keep it up

[mikey]

I'm so glad you listened to my request to listen to chon!

[vectred]

Been a fan of theirs for a decade now and it's one of the handful of bands I always come back to. Every one of their songs can uniquely put me in a headspace and I have a lot of emotions and memories tied to them. Changed me as a musician and also as a listener.

Your videos have been really entertaining so far. It's refreshing when a reaction channel actually has a reaction.

[Mykahaia]

The cool thing about this channel is that it explores and gives visibility to not so usual (but good) music. I hope you get all the views and subs you can get...

[ganas]

If you can check out Bubble Dream (my favorite) perfect pillow, or Sleepy Tea.

[majormajormajortom]

If you would like to react to some more jazzy/mathy, Chon vibes of a different order, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE could you react to some Toe and Elephant Gym? I'd recommend Toe's tracks, "All I Understand Is That I Don't Understand", "C" and "Goodbye (Album Version)" and Elephant Gym's tracks "Finger" and "Underwater".

[waylonbahazhonii]

Been waiting for you to react to Chon. Love these guys. Love your videos! 🤙🏽

[thisnotdog]

if i remember correctly either the guitarists, or the band as a whole, learned their instruments together that helped create their incredible cohesion. food for thought.