Tracklist:

1. Gonzo
2. Surfing The Crowd
3. High as a Kite
4. Fidelio
5. Open the Kimono (feat. Bruiser Wolf)
6. Neoclassical Massacre
7. Cadenza
8. F*ck Wagner
9. I.C.E.
10. Eau de Cologne
11. Poem

After 12 years of instrumental albums (ranging from a pair of Solo Pianos, chamber music, collaborative albums with Boys Noize, Jarvis Cocker and Plastikman and even a best-selling Christmas record), Chilly Gonzales has a lot to get off his chest.

The notebooks that sat unfilled since 2011s orchestral rap opus The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales started to fill up again in early 2022 after ending a lengthy decade of psychoanalysis. Coincidence? Hardly.

Behind the wordplay and name-dropping (Ron Jeremy, Marie Kondo, Genghis Khan and Phillip Glass to cite a few) the songs that made it to the new album Gonzo reveal an ongoing tension between persuasion and confession, de