{"id":2310103,"date":"2026-03-03T11:27:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2310103"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:27:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:27:03","slug":"quelle-chris-drops-surprise-new-ep-happy-place-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/quelle-chris-drops-surprise-new-ep-happy-place-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Quelle Chris Drops Surprise New EP &#8216;Happy Place&#8217;: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Rapper\/producer Quelle Chris is an underground fixture who never does things the way that he&#8217;s supposed to do things, and that extends to the release of his new EP. Quelle Chris&#8217; last album was the 2023 Cavalier collab <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/quellechris.bandcamp.com\/album\/death-tape-1-black-cottonwood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Black Cottonwood<\/a><\/em>. His new EP <em>Happy Place <\/em>is a YouTube exclusive. Rather than selling it or putting it up on the usual streaming services, Quelle Chris is throwing the whole thing up on YouTube and asking for donations.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably, the <em>Happy Place<\/em> EP has too many obvious samples to get a proper release. But even if the business made sense, <em>Happy Place<\/em> makes sense as an internet exclusive rather than a proper label release. It&#8217;s a heavy, murky, internal record. The production, mostly from Quelle Chris himself, is hazy and meditative. The vocals are lo-fi mutters. The lyrics are full of anxiety and self-doubt. On Instagram, Quelle Chris calls it &#8220;a sincere search for a slice of sanity in somber times.&#8221; Listen below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Quelle Chris - Happy Place (FULL EP)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cI8gz-pa19M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper\/producer Quelle Chris is an underground fixture who never does things the way that he&#8217;s supposed to do things, and that extends to the release of his new EP. Quelle Chris&#8217; last album was the 2023 Cavalier collab Black Cottonwood. His new EP Happy Place is a YouTube exclusive. Rather than selling it or putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2310104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Quelle-Chris-Drops-Surprise-New-EP-Happy-Place-Listen.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2310105,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310103\/revisions\/2310105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}