{"id":2339165,"date":"2026-03-20T20:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2339165"},"modified":"2026-03-20T20:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T20:16:46","slug":"yawn-mowers-mike-chick-announces-new-solo-album-congarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/yawn-mowers-mike-chick-announces-new-solo-album-congarts\/","title":{"rendered":"Yawn Mower\u2019s Mike Chick Announces New Solo Album &#8216;Congarts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For a decade now, Mike Chick has been leading the Asbury Park indie rock band Yawn Mower; their sophomore album <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2308308\/yawn-mower-announce-new-album-i-just-cant-wait-to-die-hear-rascal\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I Just Can\u2019t Wait To Die<\/a><\/em> came out last year. Chick also makes solo music. He released his own full-length <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mikechick.bandcamp.com\/album\/more-thrills-less-hills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More Thrills, Less Hills<\/a><\/em> in 2024, and now he&#8217;s getting ready to follow it with a new one called <em>Congarts<\/em>. (For once, that&#8217;s not my typo. That&#8217;s what the album is called.) <\/p>\n<p>Chick recorded <em>Congarts<\/em> over the course of about a year, in between his work on other projects, and a Real Human Jazz Band&#8217;s Martin Howth sings backup on every song. Last month, Chick shared a video for the lo-fi, drum-machine-driven power-pop tune &#8220;Tomorrow Is All A Blur,&#8221; and that turns out to be the lead single from the LP. We didn&#8217;t post it then, so here it is now:<\/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=\"Mike Chick &quot;Tomorrow Is All A Blur&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VbCb0xW3JPA?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<p>Pretty good, right? Here&#8217;s Chick in a press release, talking about making another solo album so soon after the last Yawn Mower joint:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>I just came to the point where I wanted to be working on music all the time. I don\u2019t want to take any breaks from it. If I\u2019m not writing or recording with Yawn Mower, I want to be working on at least demos of my solo songs. I\u2019ve learned a lot in regards to the process of recording over the last few years and am grateful to have a setup that allows me to record whenever I find the time. I consistently chipped away at <em>Congarts<\/em> for a few hours here and there, and before you knew it the thing was almost done.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"\/><p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you just want to work on new music all the time, then Guided By Voices would have to be a pretty good model. Today, Chick announces the impending release of <em>Congarts<\/em>, which comes out next month, and he shares the jittery, homespun new wave song &#8220;Atom Bomb,&#8221; along with his cover of GBV&#8217;s &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=INN4DF2BgLs&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Teenage FBI<\/a>&#8221; from their Ric Ocasek-produced 1999 album <em>Do The Collapse<\/em>. Check out both tracks 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=\"Atom Bomb\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B5FHZz6MjYk?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<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=\"Teenage FBI\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l7K0H3QCZII?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<p><em>Congarts<\/em> is out 4\/17 on Mint 400.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption><span>Melissa McLaughlin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\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>For a decade now, Mike Chick has been leading the Asbury Park indie rock band Yawn Mower; their sophomore album I Just Can\u2019t Wait To Die came out last year. Chick also makes solo music. He released his own full-length More Thrills, Less Hills in 2024, and now he&#8217;s getting ready to follow it with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2339166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":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-2339165","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\/Yawn-Mowers-Mike-Chick-Announces-New-Solo-Album-Congarts.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339165","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=2339165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339167,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339165\/revisions\/2339167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}