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September 13, 2004
the Hot Snakes are so Art
Hot Snakes - Plenty for all
Check out that cover art. Whew-eee. Pretty nice. Rife with...something. Anyway, I was introduced to the Hot Snakes through a friend who played me their song 'Our Work Fills the Pews', off of "Automatic Midnight", their first album. Besides being blessed with an amazing title, the song itself will make you wet your pants. In a good, warm way. This song, 'Plenty For All' from the forthcoming "Audit In Progress", however, is a lot more poppy than I'm used to hearing from the Hot Snakes. The main riff, no matter how many times I hear it, inexorably brings to mind the melancholic but paradoxically triumphant music that played at the end of Super Mario Brothers for Game Boy (the original 9 lb. version that came out circa 1990), when Mario is whisking Princess Daisy away through the clouds in his suped-up jetmobile, off to get it on in Mario's 2 bedroom apartment (shares with Luigi) in Newark, NJ. So hot! But anyway, this song is maybe the best thing that Hot Snakes have ever done, and the album pretty much crushes the other two. It's faster, it's meaner, and it's more melodic. You really can't ask for anything more...except an anti-soccer zealot of a feline whose being molested (carefully) by a pirate with a Fleur-de-Lis hovering protectively over his shoulder. No, they really covered all their bases on this album. Because they are amazing. Doesn't come out until October 5th. Listen to another song here (the excellent 'Hi-Lites', I think). And then pre-order that son of a buck [HERE]
Posted by matt at September 13, 2004 08:00 AM