Creative Community: Chateau Chateau’s music brings the synth pop party to your ears

I’m so pleased to be introducing you to the glittery synth pop of Chateau Chateau. In this episode you’ll learn more about their band philosophy and collaborative culture within the band and in the musical community. They love glitter, cats, and thrift stores. We discuss the process of releasing their first full-length album, Princess and what tools they use to promote their music.  Here at Old Pueblo, New Economy - we like their music so much we’re using their song, Crisis Party, for our podcast intro and outro! Sit back and learn more about Tucson’s Chateau Chateau. 

Chateau Chateau is an evolving community of musicians led by power couple Alex and Rachel. With beginnings in an abandoned aerospace warehouse in 2018, Chateau Chateau has grown into Tucson’s favorite self-deprecating-glam-rock band - dusty and sparkly at the same time. 

Alex and Rachel perfect the art of playing off of each other's strengths to make the ideal pair. Alex, the founder, guitar player, and vocalist, whose biophysics background brings an analytical attention to detail to each track. Rachel, keytarist, guitarist, and vocalist, is a professional artist, and keeps the band’s creativity grounded and focused. Tom, drummer, is the beautifully sweet wild card of the group. Jordan is the perfect everything man, playing any instrument the group needs to fill out their diverse sound pallet. 

They work from their home studio, where they write, demo, and record every song since their first single, Crisis Party. In addition to songwriting, the band takes pride in doing everything from start to finish, including recording songs, printing shirts, building props, and sewing stage costumes. Crisis Party was independently released in the summer of 2018 and reached remarkable play counts after finding itself on Spotify’s Discover Weekly. Riding the wave of this surprising success, the band released their first EP, Evidence, with singles featured on Spotify's Fresh Finds, New Music Friday, Discover Weekly and over a thousand other playlists. 

The band has often been noted for their colorful, flamboyant, and party-like vibe that is best on display in their wild and freaky live shows. Despite this festive atmosphere surrounding the band, you can find a much darker, sobering, and visceral imagery in their lyrics, as they frequent the deep end of subjects like mental illnesses, addiction, and suicide. The result of this blend between music and lyrics is a self-deprecating dramedy of these introverts imploring their audience to sing and dance with them while they shoot confetti cannons and wave a 6’ tall magnifying glass. 

Chateau Chateau will be independently releasing their debut full-length album, Princess, independently on all streaming services July 31st, 2020. You can listen to their debut EP, Evidence, on all streaming platforms now.