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Speedboat on Chapel Street is the debut solo album from Chris Bridgett, the first music from Chris since the Cold Water Swimmers album Holiday at the Secret Lake released in 2021. The last decade has seen Chris play guitar in a reformed Dub Sex, his first Manchester band. Chris went on to create and front The G-O-D opening for the Stone Roses at Wembley Stadium in 2017. Chris then went on to form Cold Water Swimmers, the album Holiday at the Secret Lake was a top 10 album by Louder than War in 2021 and then in 2023 Chris went solo, releasing his first solo track, from the album, The Deep End in September of that year.

Speedboat on Chapel Street is a self release on DIY or DIE and was given album of the week on Louder than War on release 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A lovely selection of grunge-tinged progressions (The Deep End in particular has a lovely Pixies-y guitar line running through it), swooning distorted groove and Bridgett's perfectly apt gravelly vocals.