Editorial Reviews
Truisms
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Daniel Sterdan, Winnipeg Sun
"hack 'n' slash guitar lines, downcast vocals, ragged harmonies, noise-punk flourishes, circular arrangements and sincere melodies"
Steve Swift, Pulse Weekly
"carefully designed and layered, each song on Truisms is special in its own right... 4 out of 5 stars"
Album Description
Andrew Low (vocals, guits) of the Jazz June has enjoyed a significant cult following over the last several years in the indie rock community. Now he has embarked on a new project, simply called Snakes & Music. Truisms represents dynamic, solid song structure. There is no mass wall of sound blasting in your ears for nine songs straight. Snakes & Music designed the songs so that each section is renescent and no one part is overshadowed by another. Low spent alot of time mapping out the vocals and constructing the lyrics so that they bonded with the instruments instead of blanketing a cool drum fill or keyboard section. Snakes & Music know it's always more fun to play the same riff for ten minutes then to listen to it, so they tried to anticipate the listeners' reactions during the writing process. When they were recording Low was breaking up with his girlfriend and Pivnick was falling in love, so a certain element of uncertain balance shines through many of the songs. Low's capsulated assessment of each song on "Truisms": 1. "take these pills and live forever" - amazing musicians burning out/ dying way too young from drugs and excessive living. 2. "red and yellow" - struggling between what will make you happy and what will help you financially and professionally in music and in life. 3. "mixed up prescription" - personal insanity, disarray and confusion. 4. "go with you" - the ultimate make out song. 5. "5 boros" - all the fake-ass dorks who were jocks in high school but think they are cool now because they live in Brooklyn or Philly or D.C. and think they are "artsy" and "weird" because they dress like the Strokes. 6. "should have looked both ways before i crossed you" - greg wrote this song and most of the lyrics so i can't answer for this one. but i can say that greg is completely nuts so i'm sure that it is about something crazy that we wouldn't understand. 7. "Ex-Smoker" - personal anxiety and paranoia caused by drugs and this insane world we live in. 8. "Hydrogen 3" - progression in the face of disparity. 9. "Shidt List" - this song gives worms to ex-girlfriends. TRY ONE TODAY!!!