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Artist | The Amazing Snakeheads
Title | Amphetamine Ballads
Genre | Alternative Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 48:50
Label | Domino Store | 2014
Catalog | WIGCD316 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 248 kbps Size | 90.42 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. I'm A Vampire 3:35
02. Nighttime 3:08
03. Swamp Song 3:45
04. Here It Comes Again 3:37
05. Flatlining 5:15
06. Where Is My Knife 4:44
07. Every Guy Wants To Be Her Baby 7:10
08. Memories 5:11
09. Heading For Heartbreak 5:39
10. Tiger By The Tail 6:46
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Delivering fiery blues-infused garage rock straight out of a film
noir nightmare, the Amazing Snakeheads are a Glasgow-based trio
consisting of singer and guitarist Dale Barclay, bassist William
Coombe, and drummer Jordon Hutchison. Barclay and Coombe had known
one another since childhood, and Barclay got to know Hutchison,
originally from New Zealand, when they were neighbors; all three men
were serious music fans who went to shows together and compared
notes on records, but they never planned on starting a group until
2010, when they spontaneously decided to rent some time at a
rehearsal space and see what happened.
Dale Barclay does not seem to be the sort of guy you want to invite
over to your house for dinner. Barclay is the lead singer and
guitarist with the British rock band the Amazing Snakeheads, and
between the frequent bouts of antisocial and violent impulses that
inform their lyrics on their debut album, "Amphetamine Ballads", and
the venom-spitting vehemence with which he delivers them, Barclay
seems like the kind of guy who may just be playing with us, but then
again he might not be.
The Amazing Snakeheads follow the Birthday Party and the Gun Club in
the bad hoodoo school of rock, constructed from equal parts
shrieking guitars, swampy atmosphere, and bad karma, but while Nick
Cave and Jeffrey Lee Pierce gave their personas enough depth of
detail that they seemed three-dimensional if truly forbidding, with
his thick brogue and growling delivery, Barclay appears more
convincingly nuts, and his bandmates (William Coombe on bass and
Jordon Hutchison on drums) bash out a simpler, less nuanced
accompaniment for Barclay's lyrical psychodrama and barbed-wire
guitar figures.
Curiously, while Barclay himself manages to creep out listeners with
these songs, the overall effect of the band is not as strong: the
rhythm section is solid, but Barclay's guitar needs more support to
turn his riffs into proper songs, and too many of these tracks feel
undernourished, as if Barclay's theatrical bent has to compensate
for the fact the material needs more flesh on its bones.
"Amphetamine Ballads" is a debut that shows real promise, but if
this band really wants to put the fear into the world, the first
step on their reign of terror should be to hire a rhythm guitarist.
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