Masterful, inventive… its visionary stuff.This new Shmu song is some of the most unhinged, beautiful rock music I've heard in a while.”

~Stereogum~ "Much less a band and more a surreal, mythical entity, the product is an explosive marriage of sounds that bursts with superhuman energy and technicolor, all mad scientist wizardy"

~ Exclaim! ~ "Psychedeic pop freakout"

~Austin Chronicle~ "Tame Impala meets My Bloody Valentine"

One Man Band fleshed out into a live 3-4 piece exploring realms of shoegaze, psychedelic pop-rock, and glitch, sounding like the last four decades of popular music, compressed and remembered in a hazy dream

Revolving around the drum kit and sampler of Sam Chown. Shmu is more - or maybe less than a band, it's a hypothetical entity.

Imagine, if you will, a recording of live instruments reassembled, through electronic means, into a collage of impossible live performances. Imagine this collage then taken by the author and used as a backing track for a live band. Dissatisfied with the result, the author then disassembles, and reassembles, everything once again.

This is Shmu. Shmu is a project & a person blurring the lines between the two Rather than scrapping each iteration, Sam Chown recycles The constant recycling leaves us with something that it at once both familiar and completely unique.

Shmu's music is an era-less pastiche of seventies psychedelic rock, eighties post punk, nineties dream pop, and modern shoegaze, filtered through Chown's sampler and spat out the other side over and over again.