The Chords UK, the alt-rock heroes helmed by Chris Pope, will release the mammoth 44-track But Then Again: The Best of The Chords UK on 3CD on 4 April 20205 on EPOP Records.

Chris was described by Paul Weller as "the best songwriter of his generation", by Uncut as "savage as Townshend with a toothache" and Vive Le Rock as creating, "timeless song writing and understated brilliance!" This collection underlines all that.

Designed to truly tell the tale of The Chords UK, But Then Again is an ambitious and inventive collection, featuring new and previously unreleased tracks, remastered / remixed / remade versions of favorites, unashamedly obscure B-sides, and even live recordings.

This is a set of songs that draw on what has gone before - and the fans will find all their favorites - but they have been revisited and taken to another place! Chris Pope himself said, "I decided a few years ago to start work on a 'compilation/ best of', of sorts.

But simply to add 20 plus songs from six albums onto Vinyl/CD and put it out there: that would be far too easy and wouldn't interest me one bit! Instead, I looked back at songs from the three Pope albums Grace of God, Tall Tales, Peace of Mind and the Hat-trick of Chords UK albums Take on Life, Nowhere Land and Big City Dreams, then picked the ones we knew we could 'dream up' again, or re-imagine.

The new tracks are renderings of unrecorded songs written between 1982 up to 2024. Finally, we hit the acoustic guitars and some old original Chords tunes got laid down too". The Chords UK were formed over a decade ago to continue playing classic Chords tunes such as "Maybe Tomorrow", "The British Way Of Life" and "So Far Away".

But Chris isn't interested in remaining frozen in time and his aim has always been to push forward, But Then Again: The Best of The Chords UK does just that. This album is a milestone, sure, but also a statement of intent - Chris Pope and The Chords UK have plenty to celebrate, but also plenty more to achieve along the way.