Snuff “5-4-3-2-1-Perhaps?” Album Review
Snuff
5-4-3-2-1-Perhaps?
Fat Wreck Chords
review by Denise Borders
After waiting almost nine years, Snuff is back with a brand new record. I was stoked on this news and so eager to check it out, especially since Fat Wreck was putting the album out (once again). The hiatus only puts more pressure on the band to produce hits (I think), so that made my anticipation for the record even more intense. Let’s do this shit.
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track list
1: In the Stocks
2: From Underneath the Ice
3: There Goes the Waltzinblack
4: Mumbo Jumbo
5: Rat Run
6: EFL
7: Bones for Company
8: Mary Poppins
9: I Blame the Parents
10: All Good Things / Cherubs Delight (Outro)
11: In the Stocks (Acoustic Version) *
12: EFL (Acoustic Version) *
YEEOOOOOW! This first track In the Stocks made me so stoked for this record. It’s got the same things that I love about older Snuff tracks. It’s upbeat, fun and makes you wanna sing along n shit. The fact it starts off with clapping into a rad guitar intro is just so fucking cool. I LOVE YOU SNUFF.
Moving along to From Underneath the Ice, I get even more happy as fuck because this song has more of that fast-punk drumming (which come on, is awesome), but somehow this band always seems sort of soothing to me no matter how fast they play. I blame Duncan Redmonds!!!! Miles awaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!!!
I’m going to skip to Mumbo Jumbo and say that this sounds like an Agnostic Front song in the beginning and then becomes like a Municipal Waste sounding song and then you’re like like what the fuck is going on THIS SHIT IS AWESOME. I think this is my favorite track on the record. It’s definitely up there in their faster shit and just all over the place, which I am so into. Listen to this track first if you want to have an epileptic seizure and hear lots of explosions.
Rat Run sounds a bit more like the Snuff we all know and love. At this point I am super happy with every track I’ve heard. It will remind you why everyone loves English dudes. But moving forward (I feel like my reviews are really long, sorry for all you re-re’s that hate to read, I’m trying to make them shorter but still detailed!!!!!!!), let’s skip forward to the acoustic songs on the record (hence the asterisks in the track list). I want to first say that I think it’s pretty awesome that they included two acoustic versions of tracks on the record. To hear a different version of the song is cool, not to mention they are just rad by themselves. In the Stocks and EFL were two great tracks anyway, and I really dig the acoustic versions. You know Snuff is gonna pull out that harmonica.
Let’s say this: Fat Wreck Chords has done it AGAIN. This label never disappoints me and I grew up on their bands and I’m still not grown up but still listening to their bands. I’m so glad bands like Snuff still exist and are making music amidst all the bullshit out there today. All I can say is thank you.
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About the Author
Denise Borders 39, Los Angeles. Denise founded PWV in 2008 and remains the primary manager and photographer/videographer. She is not secretly obsessed with Joey Cape.
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