Snowden - Anti-Anti
I'm hardly the first one to talk about this band or this album, but I've been obsessed with this record since I got it. It's in heavy rotation, which means 3-4 spins a day, and I'm not getting sick of it, I'm only digging it more. I love it when that happens. So, Snowden: quartet from Atlanta that I first heard last year when I got a hold of a 7" for Black Eyes, which also makes an appearance on this record. What is so striking to me is how much better I like this band and even that song now. They did re-record it for the album, and the slight changes in production make a big difference. So what do they sound like? Snowden are basically a guitar band that has similar tastes and influences to Interpol, and share a similar mood to that band. However, where Interpol write slow, brooding songs that come off as almost resigned, Snowden writes songs that are usually kind of ass-shakin' that don't seem so disaffected. They've got a hint of detached cool, but it still somehow comes off as passionate and sincere. Unlike Interpol, I believe that they care. Snowden comfortably show they can work in several musical spaces: they move pretty seamlessly from rockers to slow building ballads, and then throw down to something that I don't have a good word for, except that it belongs loud and on a very cool dancefloor somewhere. This track is the opener on the record, dig it and check out more tracks off their mySpace and official website. My current fav on the record (that I'm listening to like 10 times a day): track 10, Kill the Power.

Info:

Official Web Site

MySpace

Jade Tree (label)

Listen: Snowden - Like Bullets

Labels: Album Review, Snowden