Label: Suicide Squeeze
Released 4/15/2022
Over 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 out t or another “animal” indie band, the Seattle group quickly de ed expectations and garnered a reputation for subverting the popular underground sounds of time. The group cultivated a small but fervent fanbase across multiple continents with their signature combination of synth-infused noise rock, bad-trip psychedelia, flamboyant proto-metal boogie, and unhinged basement-show hardcore before imploding at the end of 2009. And while These Arms Are Snakes’ full-length albums remain fitting testaments to the band’s frantic urgency and stylistic fluidity, there is a treasure trove of deep cuts buried on b-sides and split releases that further reinforce their position as one of the weirdest and wildest acts of the decade. For the first time, those rarities and one-offs have been compiled into a cohesive overview of These Arms Are Snakes’ lifespan on the double LP Duct Tape & Shivering Crows.
Track listing:
- Meet Your Mayor
- Camera Shy
- Trix
- Energy Drink and the Long Walk Home
- Heart Shaped Box
- Washburn
- Old Paradise
- Payday Loans
- Hook on This
- Riding the Grape Dragon (Demo)
- Run It Through the Dog (Demo)
- Diggers of Ditches Everywhere (Demo)
- The Blue Rose (Demo)