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DC SNIPERS- 'Missile Sunset' LP/CD |
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Most people outside of the NYC/Jersey area first had the opportunity to hear the DC Snipers on their debut split single with the Shop Fronts released on Your Permanat Records in February 2005. Don’t bother lookin for it....OUT OF PRINT!! The Shop Fronts (Rip Off Records) straigh forward rock n roll approach complemented the more complex DC Snipers side perfectly! 2 solid Snipers tunes that left many a listeners curious and intrigued as to their next musical offering. Well a few months later they checked back in with a track on the V/A- Let’s Have Some Goddamn Fun! CD that Rapid Pule Records released. A great 16 track regional compilation that documents the cream of the crop in the New York City rock n roll underground. One Snipers track was a minor offering from a band that was long overdue for at least a 45! Well armed with an arsenal of brand new material the DC Snipers hit Electric Frog Recordings in August of 2005 to record the absolutely monsterous ‘Missile Sunset’. 11 solid hits (if that can even apply in this case) that exemplifies the DC Snipers sound perfectly. From the somber rhythmic opening chords of ‘Note To Self’, the song transcends into an anger fueled, ear bludgeoning crecendo before meandering back into mellowness. And there’s just something cool that despite this chaotic rollercoaster, the song is stylistically offset with the atonal, harmonised chorus of ‘Note To Self, KILL YOUR SELF!’ Arty...ya kind of. But more in a ‘ya you didn’t think of it and we did, fuck you’ kinda way. With song titles like ‘Die (They All Want Me To), ‘Electric Chair From Saigon’ and ‘All Humans Are Garbage’ each DC Snipers song blends introspective, detatched themes with pretty catchy, and at times melodic, music that sounds like it’s 3 different songs patched together into one loosely defined ‘idea’. And an ingenious idea at that! The DC Snipers bring something different to the table with each of the
11 tracks on this album; and it’s hard to do that and actually end
up with a record that’s good! But the Snipers have proven it’s
not impossible. Taking cues from other musical pioneers like the Screamers,
Gang of Four, Urinals and the Electric Eels; the DC Snipers forge into
their own fragmented, audience-less sector and begin to build a following
based on songs that are undeniably catchy without sticking to a musical
‘script’. The most difficult part of being in a proto/art
punk/whatever band like this: is to do something completely inovative
and different, yet still leaving the listener with something loosely ill
defined to grasp onto. And the DC Snipers completely nail that. Check
it out or don’t....but I’m sure ‘Missile Sunset’
will appeal to a select group of people that are willing to follow these
trail blazers into their own finely crafted musical realm! |
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