Nodzzz, The Mantles, Bomber Jackets
12th March @ The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Rd, Dalston, E8 3AS
Bored of zombied front rows full of dozing young hip tings and view-obscuring ranks of iPhone photographers? Then get yourself a ticket to see Nodzzz, one of the most arse-shakingly brilliant bands to come out of San Francisco’s house parties (they also run hot label Make A Mess) in the last few years. With their deadbeat humour livening up the breaks, tonight they’ll have you jiggling your bits to songs that sound like Beat Happening and Television Personalities, if they’d had a thing for Barbershop quartets. Siltbreeze psych group The Mantles support.
11 Mar 2011
Jensen Sportag - New EP on Cascine now streaming.
Here’s some nice electronica on the Cascine label that flits between various subgenres from the last few decades. It starts on crackling dubstep and finishes on a sleazy pop number that could have been written for Prince.
27 Feb 2011
Queen Of Hearts
It seems Snipe favourite Dreamtrak has been working away in his neon primary-coloured audio lab, both producing and remixing an interesting new protege in Queen Of Hearts. Many switched-on sets of eyes are keenly focussed on the elegant hooks and sharp looks of this emerging pop starlet. Keep ‘em peeled… and whet your appetite on Dreamtrak’s own characteristically shiny remix of “Freestyle” below.
Freestyle (Dreamtrak Remix) by Queen Of Hearts
Photo: Jenny Brough
24 Feb 2011
John & Jehn - Tour Film, Part One
Delectable duo John & Jehn made a series of short films whilst on tour recently. Here’s the first part – J&J and their new band leaving Paris for a sold out London show. More episodes to follow.
John and Jehn – Fear fear fear live session by facultydigital
18 Jan 2011
Martin Creed
Turner Prize winning conceptual artist Martin Creed has released a video for his new song “THINKING / NOT THINKING”. Not only is it a music video, but it’s been numbered as “#1090” which, by the Creed system, also defines it as one of the artist’s works. The release of the single coincides with Creed’s forthcoming show, “Mothers”, at the new Hauser and Wirth space in Savile Row; Martin Creed will also play a gig at Café Oto in Dalston on March 2nd.
17 Jan 2011
Snipe: 10 albums of 2010
10. Darwin Deez
NYC guitar-pop, like a doe-eyed Strokes with a drum machine, a sweet disposition and a sense of fun. Lightweight stuff, but done so perfectly that you can’t help but adore it.
9. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Bradford Cox dips into his songwriting memory box and pulls out a series of songs that read like a muso’s tribute to his favourite music of the previous 5 decades. HIs body of work keeps getting better. Bradford Cox is a musical icon developing before our eyes.
8. Caribou – Swim
Caribou went electronic, exploring the ground between the mechanical rhythms of dance music and the organic, shimmery analogue sound of Andorra. Cropped down from hundreds of contenders, each song became an artefact, the set characterised by a scholarly attention to detail.
7. Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
Following up her iconic album “Ys.” was never going to be easy, but Joanna Newsom pulled it off with this sprawling collection of kindly, poetic melodies.
6. Field Music – Measure
A brilliant accomplishment of a record that sounded like a lost AOR classic. Inventive, engaging, sprawling, and practically perfect in every way. So good, I’m freshly surprised on each listen on the sheer musical quality on display.
5. Trouble Books – Gathered Tones
Radiating sonic warmth and character, Trouble Books’ second was another engaging and endlessly likeable series of heartstring-tugging short stories and reassuringly familiar everyday scenes. The polar opposite of punk rock.
Trouble Books – Parking by snipelondon
4. Meursault – All Creatures Will Make Merry
Lo-fi emotional folk (lolemolk) music with electronic flourishes, autobiographical lyrics and spellbinding vocals.
Meursault – Crank Resolutions by snipelondon
3. Beach House- Teen Dream
A caring, understated record full of mild poetry and enticing melodies, made great by the seam of human warmth that runs through every song.
Beach House – Norway by sxeseis
2. Future Islands – In Evening Air
A theatrical, histrionic vocal delivery fronts songs that cover the ground between Joy Division’s tense basslines and Xiu Xiu’s cracked keyboard sounds. A singularly odd and brilliant band who’ve pulled off something really special with this album.
Future Islands – Walking Through That Door by snipelondon
1. Sam Amidon – I See A Sign
American folk songs and murder ballads made humbly brilliant by Amidon’s inimitable, reedy, cracked voice. Arrangements and accompaniment by Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nico Muhly certainly don’t do any harm, and the curveball R. Kelly cover is a stroke of genius, bringing the past-and-present element into sharp focus. Like Future Islands, Amidon mixes a healthy sense of absurdity with subject matter of gravity, and in doing so manages to bring to bear the perfect everyday heartaches of the great American blues singers.
Daily MPfree: Sam Amidon – How Come That Blood by snipelondon
30 Dec 2010
Snipe: 10 albums of 2010
10. Darwin Deez
NYC guitar-pop, like a doe-eyed Strokes with a drum machine, a sweet disposition and a sense of fun. Lightweight stuff, but done so perfectly that you can’t help but adore it.
9. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
Bradford Cox dips into his songwriting memory box and pulls out a series of songs that read like a muso’s tribute to his favourite music of the previous 5 decades. HIs body of work keeps getting better. Bradford Cox is a musical icon developing before our eyes.
8. Caribou – Swim
Caribou went electronic, exploring the ground between the mechanical rhythms of dance music and the organic, shimmery analogue sound of Andorra. Cropped down from hundreds of contenders, each song became an artefact, the set characterised by a scholarly attention to detail.
7. Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me
Following up her iconic album “Ys.” was never going to be easy, but Joanna Newsom pulled it off with this sprawling collection of kindly, poetic melodies.
6. Field Music – Measure
A brilliant accomplishment of a record that sounded like a lost AOR classic. Inventive, engaging, sprawling, and practically perfect in every way. So good, I’m freshly surprised on each listen on the sheer musical quality on display.
5. Trouble Books – Gathered Tones
Radiating sonic warmth and character, Trouble Books’ second was another engaging and endlessly likeable series of heartstring-tugging short stories and reassuringly familiar everyday scenes. The polar opposite of punk rock.
Trouble Books – Parking by snipelondon
4. Meursault – All Creatures Will Make Merry
Lo-fi emotional folk (lolemolk) music with electronic flourishes, autobiographical lyrics and spellbinding vocals.
Meursault – Crank Resolutions by snipelondon
3. Beach House- Teen Dream
A caring, understated record full of mild poetry and enticing melodies, made great by the seam of human warmth that runs through every song.
Beach House – Norway by sxeseis
2. Future Islands – In Evening Air
A theatrical, histrionic vocal delivery fronts songs that cover the ground between Joy Division’s tense basslines and Xiu Xiu’s cracked keyboard sounds. A singularly odd and brilliant band who’ve pulled off something really special with this album.
Future Islands – Walking Through That Door by snipelondon
1. Sam Amidon – I See A Sign
American folk songs and murder ballads made humbly brilliant by Amidon’s inimitable, reedy, cracked voice. Arrangements and accompaniment by Valgeir Sigurðsson and Nico Muhly certainly don’t do any harm, and the curveball R. Kelly cover is a stroke of genius, bringing the past-and-present element into sharp focus. Like Future Islands, Amidon mixes a healthy sense of absurdity with subject matter of gravity, and in doing so manages to bring to bear the perfect everyday heartaches of the great American blues singers.
Daily MPfree: Sam Amidon – How Come That Blood by snipelondon
23 Dec 2010
The Epstein
A nice bit of impassioned indie here in the mould of Meursault or Frightened Rabbit. A bit more folksy than either of those, mind.
11 Dec 2010
Patterns
Good proper old-fashioned paper ‘zine Pull Yourself Together have started a label. Their first release is a fantastic offering from Patterns – four beautiful, undulating ambient pop songs. The “New Noise” EP will be released as a free download or ltd. CD on December 13th.
03 Dec 2010
Sonic Youth, Shellac & Factory Floor» 31 December
Hammersmith Apollo | 45 Queen Caroline St., W6 9QH
Forget about house parties and Hootenannies and head over to deepest West London this New Year’s Eve for this stellar ATP party, featuring old hands Sonic Youth and Shellac and bright new talents Factory Floor. Evergreen alt-rock heroes Sonic Youth are in a rich run of form, making some of the best music of their career in recent albums Sonic Nurse and The Eternal. Shellac’s better material might be a bit farther in the past, but their brutal, ferocious live shows simply never disappoint. Factory Floor aren’t built to open for anyone, but their relentless, pounding krautrock-noise-techno is reason in self to attend.
02 Dec 2010
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- Only 16 commuters touch in to Emirates Air Line, figures reveal
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- London has chosen its mayor, but why can’t it choose its own media?
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
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