Wombo and the paranoid mystery of "Snakey" and more

 

"Driving along the open road and he sees it / Stepping into the country store and they see him..."

"Snakey" by Louisville, KY avant alt rocker trio Wombo (the wonderfully out there Sydney Chadwick, Cameron Lowe, Joel Taylor) does in fact slither. When I first heard it I thought that this might be what Nirvana would of sounded like if they did bedroom pop and Curt was a girl. Never mind me though, I say stupid things sometimes. For a song that feels simple (at first), the emotional / sonic edges hard and soft and kind of askew lull you and then inhabit your brain like a hallucinogen. The aloof, even sort of numb vocal aesthetic, the Dwyer-esque on barbiturates guitar blares (LOVE them), the ambling textured bass lines, the slippery potent drumming all make for an experience that is at once chill but also vitally artful. 

“Snakey” (Wombo shares) is: - "About paranoia and delusion. Someone thinking everyone can see them losing their mind, when really everything is deceptively calm on the outside." AND is the opening track from Wombo's new upcoming album "Fairy Rust" (dropping July 29th, 2022) and here is a press notey peak into what lies ahead:

[Conceived over the course of the last two years, the record is steeped in its own time warp of escapism, and influenced by fairytales like the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson (“RVW” is short for “Rip Van Winkle”) that blend surreal situations with the mundane. ‘Fairy Rust’ plays on this preoccupation with fantasy (“especially in a time where people are seeming to gravitate towards these kinds of stories”), and the resulting record sounds like no one else.]

I eagerly await "Fairy Rust" - (and check out the official "Backflip" video as well).

-Robb Donker Curtius

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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

https://www.facebook.com/womboband

https://www.instagram.com/womborocks/

https://womborocks.bandcamp.com/

https://open.spotify.com/track/0GPKaQa3ENmjq3mJrYngAj

https://music.apple.com/us/album/snakey/1616258182?i=1616258183

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHjLCsU7I8lnJnak2b9tLYw

https://twitter.com/womborocks


“Avant-garde post-punk with weird psych pop touches and math rock undertones. It’s pretty special and we’re along for the ride.” - Post Trash

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