These Arms Are Snakes / Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps...
Album: | Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps... | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | These Arms Are Snakes | Added: | Nov 2004 | |
Label: | Jade Tree |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2005-01-23 | Pull Date: | 2005-03-27 |
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Week Ending: | Mar 20 | Mar 13 | Mar 6 | Feb 20 | Feb 13 | Feb 6 | Jan 30 |
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Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Sep 10, 2015: | What was scene?
Greetings From the Great no |
4. | Mar 07, 2005: | the ox and the hammer show
Big News |
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2. | Feb 13, 2008: | nag champa orangeasm
Greetings From the Great no |
5. | Mar 01, 2005: | the ox and hammer show
The Shit Sisters |
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3. | Mar 17, 2005: | Strange Attractor
Your Pearly Whites |
6. | Feb 14, 2005: | The Ox and the Hammer Show
Gadget Arms |
Album Review
chopper dave
Reviewed 2005-01-23
Reviewed 2005-01-23
Former members of Kill Sadie and Botch live up to the expectations of their incredible ep with their awesome debut full-length. Picture a combination of fellow Seattle bands Minus the Bear's math rock precision and Blood Brothers' violent intensity. The pattern is: distorted screamed/spoken/snarled vox singing about stifling domesticity and shitty jobs, windy math guitar, and prominent dark pump-organ. Great combination of interesting melodies and thrashing energy. Definitely worth checking out, I really love this CD. –chopper dave
1-Starts with machine-like percussion, then breaks down into heavy guitar and distorted screamed/spoken lyrics, math-rock guitar and organ
2- FCC(fuck) distorted loopy guitar parts, pump those fists during the balls out chorus
3- more angular guitar and distorted sing/screaming, with a nice head-bouncing rhythm
4- organ instrumental for 1:18
*5- slower and more melodic, ominous and bleak, voice and lyrics are clearer than usual, builds and builds to a nice slow-paced climax
*6- 8:08, mostly a slow instrumental, swells gradually with jangled guitar and very distorted vox, feels slightly experimental with strange guitar fx and noise leaping in and out, but mostly like a brooding improvised jam, fades with repetitive guitar loop
*7- end of last song bleeds into beginning and then explodes abruptly with snare roll, then snarling voice and great math-rock, ends with alternating voices chanting phrases and pounding kick drum
8- odd pump organ melody clashes nicely with thrashing guitar and vocals, chaotic and intense
9- a little varied with different sections
10- 0:57, recorded voice reciting story over minimalist noise
*11- awesome dynamic climax to album, organ-heavy, starts slow but builds beautifully into an agitated mess, ends with 3:17 remaining, fade out here! because you have silence for a couple minutes and then a slow organ melody to end the track
1-Starts with machine-like percussion, then breaks down into heavy guitar and distorted screamed/spoken lyrics, math-rock guitar and organ
2- FCC(fuck) distorted loopy guitar parts, pump those fists during the balls out chorus
3- more angular guitar and distorted sing/screaming, with a nice head-bouncing rhythm
4- organ instrumental for 1:18
*5- slower and more melodic, ominous and bleak, voice and lyrics are clearer than usual, builds and builds to a nice slow-paced climax
*6- 8:08, mostly a slow instrumental, swells gradually with jangled guitar and very distorted vox, feels slightly experimental with strange guitar fx and noise leaping in and out, but mostly like a brooding improvised jam, fades with repetitive guitar loop
*7- end of last song bleeds into beginning and then explodes abruptly with snare roll, then snarling voice and great math-rock, ends with alternating voices chanting phrases and pounding kick drum
8- odd pump organ melody clashes nicely with thrashing guitar and vocals, chaotic and intense
9- a little varied with different sections
10- 0:57, recorded voice reciting story over minimalist noise
*11- awesome dynamic climax to album, organ-heavy, starts slow but builds beautifully into an agitated mess, ends with 3:17 remaining, fade out here! because you have silence for a couple minutes and then a slow organ melody to end the track
Track Listing
1. | The Shit Sisters | 7. | Greetings From the Great no | |||
2. | Angela's Secret | 8. | La Stanza Bianca | |||
3. | Big News | 9. | Barlings of the New Midnight | |||
4. | Tracing | 10. | Oxeneer | |||
5. | Your Pearly Whites | 11. | Idaho | |||
6. | Gadget Arms | . |