"evening's winding down, time for another round..."
SNAKE EATS BOY is Hastings (UK) based artist, musician, singer-songwriter who sometimes swims deep in melancholia seas but does come up for air too. The seriously surprising "Occupado", while still somber, feel like the edges of a dark cloud letting light seep inside. SEB allows glimmers of faint sounds stirring behind his well played acoustic that feel like background organ and then, that first surprise. While you feel like you are in for a sort of Elliot Smith-esque acoustic track, it erupts with folk bohemian orchestration. There are more intricacies that you can count on both hands inside the shifting drums, and stark synth or strings, maybe mellotron? The lushness at one point deconstructs in a sideways Beatles way and when I thought it would strip down, it only gets more lush in different ways ending with what feels like the warble of a vintage Farfisa run through a old vibratone.
Of the track SEB shares:
"In regards to the track, it follows on the narrative of someone being totally absorbed and consumed by their inner demons and memories. It is just the part of the process where instead of moving on, they are dwelling. They are scared that leaving it behind would mean they lose their identity and instead they embrace the darker parts of their mind and let them fester wherever they are. That is usually why you would find someone like that at a bar, by themselves. That sort of headspace can make someone extremely cantankerous and isolated."
This feels so utterly different than my first introduction to SEB that it feels emotionally a million miles away. You can read my first review here for reference : The utterly intriguing, melancholia of "Early Mournings" by UK collective Snake Eats Boy. and you might as well delve into this review: Snake Eats Boy and the sustained dark art folk dance of "The Haunting of H. Quinn" as reading my reviews and hearing SEB's other works will help you realize this young artist's breath and scope and /or evolution.
Lovely stuff indeed that enriches my life.
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Lovely stuff indeed that enriches my life.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://snakeeatsboy.bandcamp.com/
‘Ocupado’ is the third finished piece to be revealed by the ever mysterious collective known as Snake Eats Boy. For the people expecting/ hoping for more of the same from “the divergent painter of emotions” - (American Pancake) they will be both satisfied and pleasantly surprised. SEB (as they have affectionately become known) have branched out this time around with a fuller sound by adding an ensemble of instruments, a drum machine and have seemingly set up their studio session in a lively bar. Progressing onwards, but not entirely straying too far from the alt-folk sensibilities that brought them to the table, the collective have revealed more of what ails them and much more of what inspires them. There are subtle nods to orchestral sixties pop legend Lee Hazelwood, whispers of trip-hop innovators Portishead and even acknowledgements of modern contemporaries such as Andy Shauf. All of this and so much more yet they still manage to keep it intimate, tender and completely, melancholically on brand.
Snake Eats Boy, indie rock, folk indie, somber folk, storytelling, "Occupado", Hastings, UK, evolving sound, folk orchestrations, Beatle-esque moments, bedroom folk aesthetics,
‘Ocupado’ is the third finished piece to be revealed by the ever mysterious collective known as Snake Eats Boy. For the people expecting/ hoping for more of the same from “the divergent painter of emotions” - (American Pancake) they will be both satisfied and pleasantly surprised. SEB (as they have affectionately become known) have branched out this time around with a fuller sound by adding an ensemble of instruments, a drum machine and have seemingly set up their studio session in a lively bar. Progressing onwards, but not entirely straying too far from the alt-folk sensibilities that brought them to the table, the collective have revealed more of what ails them and much more of what inspires them. There are subtle nods to orchestral sixties pop legend Lee Hazelwood, whispers of trip-hop innovators Portishead and even acknowledgements of modern contemporaries such as Andy Shauf. All of this and so much more yet they still manage to keep it intimate, tender and completely, melancholically on brand.
Snake Eats Boy, indie rock, folk indie, somber folk, storytelling, "Occupado", Hastings, UK, evolving sound, folk orchestrations, Beatle-esque moments, bedroom folk aesthetics,
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