Do we really need to review reissues? I mean, isn’t it obvious that the record is amazing simply from the fact it’s deserving of a reissue, especially 24 odd years after it’s initial release? Maybe instead I could just make a list of bands that might not be about today if it weren’t for Chin Chin? Let’s see”¦ Those Dancing Days, Liechtenstein, Love is All, Vivian Girls”¦ No? Shut up and write a proper review?Chin Chin were an all girl trio from Switzerland. They released their first single in the summer of 1984. Debut record Sound Of The Westway was released on Farmer Records the following year. This week the record gets an up to date, re-mastered release on Slumberland and Mississippi.Recorded and mixed in just seven days, there’s a distinctly DIY sensibility to the album; it’s loose and occasionally jarring, but it doesn’t sound out of date at all. In the current trend of lo-fi bedroom demos it’s sort of a fitting time to re-release a record Frankie Rose would probably give her tattooed left arm to record.The lyrics are witty, honest and yelped along to the bounce of a near Ramones paced beat with joyful abandon. I love the way they sling out lines like “Why are my friends so violent/Why are my friends so selfish” and still sound like they’re having the most fun in the world. This record makes me smile. It makes me want to pick up a guitar and bang out a hundred bar chords.Listening through this album many faces and record sleeves of the bands I love today jump through my mind. And if they’re not influenced directly by Chin Chin, I’m pretty sure a few of their influencers must have put the needle to this vinyl. Are you telling me Kathleen Hanna never dug these chicks?In all sincerity, this is an important reissue, not only for those who’re missing it’s 12”s in their collections or those who want to jump around the room to some excellent indie-pop, but just because it shows that anyone can do it. We’re not talking extravagant Ableton created plug-in masterpieces; we’re not talking 5 years spent in an LA studio with 57 session musicians. This is three girls, guitars, drums and a handful of perfectly penned pop songs.To be honest, this record came out the year I was born. I’m not going to try and feign some understanding of what it might have been like to listen to in the context of a tailing off post-punk scene, but listening today, it sounds fucking fantastic.