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Oxeneers Or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go
Artist:
These Arms Are Snakes
Format: CD
New: Currently Unavailable New
Used: Currently Unavailable $0.00
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Formats and Editions
1. Shit Sisters, The
2. Angela's Secret
3. Big News
4. Tracing
5. Your Pearly Whites
6. Gadget Arms
7. Greetings from the Great North Woods
8. Stanza Bianca, La
9. Darlings of New Midnight
10. Oxeneer
11. Idaho
Reviews:
"Early purveyors of punk dissonance Andy Gill and John Lydon understood the appeal of blending that discord with subtle harmony to create a sound that was poppy yet still viscerally jarring. On their 2003 debut EP, This Is Meant to Hurt You, Seattle's These Arms Are Snakes adapted those same lessons, with an ear toward contemporary noise translators like the Promise Ring and Girls vs. Boys, and then dosed the proceedings with flecks of prog majesty, thrash intensity and metal bombast. The result was one of the year's most compelling and singular punk releases.On their first full-length album, Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home, TAAS continues to refine that beautiful chaos. The frenetic Jane's Addiction/GVSB math punk of ""The S*** Sisters"" leads naturally to the proggy King Crimson-meets-Mr. Bungle howl of ""Angela's Secret"" and the whipcrack martial rhythms and concussive punk volume of ""Big News."" On paper, These Arms Are Snakes might seem almost pathologically influenced-we haven't even touched on the Afghan Whigs carnival soul of ""Your Pearly Whites"" or the PIL-tinged maelstrom of the eight-minute epic ""Gadget Arms""-but the band's true talent lies in their ability to integrate their widely varied musical interests into their impossibly nuanced core sound.
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