Album · Ikara Colt
Chat and Business by Ikara Colt
Chat and Business is an album by Ikara Colt, released in 2002. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “One Note”, on 1 list with a best position of #33.
Chat and Business, the debut album from London art-school noiseniks Ikara Colt, came out on Fantastic Plastic Records on 4 March 2002, with Epitaph handling Europe and the US. The four-piece, formed by students at London Guildhall University with Jon Ball on bass, wear their Sonic Youth and The Fall on their sleeves: jagged, clattering post-punk, guitars scraping like knives on a plate.
It's built on repetition and spite, and "One Note" nails the ethos in its title alone. The packaging got them into trouble: the record came with stickers meant to be matched to captions under blank spaces on the cover, and the UK chart compilers ruled them a free gift and disqualified the album from the charts. Basic Instructions came next.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Chat and Business on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One Note | 1 | #33 | – | 2001 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.