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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nWhen you get an album to review that describes the band behind it as being; \u201ca combination of synth-infused noise rock, bad-trip psychedelia, flamboyant proto-metal boogie, and unhinged basement-show hardcore.\u201d I will challenge anyone not to have their interest immediately piqued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I mean, what the hell did These Arms Are Snakes actually sound like when their spark burned brightly, albeit briefly, back in the noughties?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, \u2018Duct Tape & Shivering Crows\u2019, a thirteen track retrospective of the Seattle band\u2019s seven year career, is certainly as good a place as any to find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With a tracklisting that runs in reverse order and kicks off with one of the last tracks the band recorded in the shape of the spikey \u2018Meet Your Mayor\u2019, These Arms Are Snakes immediately have me thinking of bands like Drive Like Jehu, Burning Airlines and Wales\u2019s very own Midasuno. \u00a0This is music that is never going to get played on mainstream radio, but then again what music worth writing about actually does?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For me, it\u2019s when the keyboards kick in during the Snakes\u2019 take on Lost Sounds\u2019 \u2018Energy Drink And The Long Walk Home\u2019 and the shadows of the grossly overlooked The (International) Noise Conspiracy are cast long over proceedings that the band fully ignite adding their own unique stamp to the song, something they then proceed to do with their almost Fall-esque take on Nirvana\u2019s \u2018Heart Shaped Box\u2019. Interesting stuff indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n