SNICKERS balances unsettling darkness against gentle textures and ties it together with cracked fuzz and warble. The first reference we could think of is the Residents -Eskimo in particular- but that still isn't enough to get one started as a listener. Each side is a medley of short compositions with Lynch-ian dream-like states presented as though it were recorded from a radio and stored under Laura Palmer's bed for the last couple of decades. It seems to lean heavily on the musical aspects but does have some hushed and obscured vocals giving it an outsider pop edge.
The essence of Snickers is unplaceable. It has you searching for familiar comparisons that will never be easily satisfied. It's probably just better to let go and be swept into its world with this follow up to their debut, "On the HI-Fi."
Some words from Aquarius:
"The music is super lo-fi, an avant, abstract, minimal murk pop, wreathed in TONS of FX, swaths of blurred reverb, a soft focus haze that renders the whole thing washed out and fantastically faded. It’s a druggy, woozy, downer melancholia with nods to Sparklehorse, Sentridoh, the Supreme Dicks, and other home brewed pop oddities, a crystalline collection of warble and waver that we’re digging a whole lot."
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Sonic Youth is one of those bands where you easily run out of superlatives to describe what they created. This could've easily come off as a cynical cash-grab by a band that had broken up 11 years prior to the release of this record, but that's not what this is. Some of my favourite Sonic Youth instrumentals. sentient meat
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Honey Radar have never made a bad album (or EP). Everything they've ever put out has made me question gravity (in a good way). I want them to play at my funeral. Peecat
Terry Venemous is releasing new music every 3 weeks this year. His latest EP is sumptuous art pop with a wry sense of detachment.
Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 27, 2024
A new compilation of studio recordings and live rarities captures another side of ’90s experimentalists Gastr del Sol. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 27, 2024
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Kicking off with a downright psychotic improv by Marble Sheep wherein the band's searing free-rock wildfire is kept from melting into outright noise only by the diligence of the cyborgs in the rhythm section, this caustic ride through Japanese rock extremism maintains a similarly breakneck pace for a solid hour, each track throwing a fascinating twist or turn in to keep things interesting, until screeching to a halt so Haino can j/o into a mic for 8 minutes. Oh well, nothing's perfect! 9/10 CptHatemonger