These Arms Are Snakes - Duct Tape & Shivering CrowsOver the course of their seven year run back in the 00s, These Arms Are Snakes covered a lot of territory, both in terms of actual miles spent on the road and in terms of their creative bandwidth. Though the band was often mistaken for a typical non sequitur named screamo outfit or another animal indie band, the Seattle group quickly deed expectations and garnered a reputation for subverting the popular underground sounds of time. The group cultivated

When the band Trees Speak

Roller Coaster

Twenty years of recording

Loaves & Fishes - Willow 5

things that are smart / exuberant / catchy all at once

which I tried to reflect in the sonic environment of the piece through enveloping delays

continues their studio recording journey after a detour into intensive live performance (idiosyncratically captured in a cramped radio studio on the Risk Reaps Reward EP) and a major digital art installation

on Decor Records sees them exploring the US Gulf Coast

As such it combines the anarchy of the band's previous slop with a expert grasp on hook and pop dynamics

it retains its immediacy years later

my life has been sound-tracked by the songs I listen to and sing along with

so full of revel and lament