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UP AND COMING
Brian Dukes, Up & Coming Weekly, May 12, 2004
May 12, 2004
MEOW MEOW
Snow Gas Bones
Experimental modern rock at its core, Snow Gas Bones, by Meow Meow,
places more importance on imaginative writing and risk-taking, than
it does mainstream acceptance. It's an album whose blood runs in
the same veins as such bands as Ride and My Bloody Valentine - which
is an interesting pedigree to say the least.
The vast majority of Snow Gas Bones comes off
as electric noise. Ambient loops caterwaul against random bursts
of static and abstract noise - it's like a band Philip Glass would
conduct for. Heavily processed synth guitars grind vicious and
unyielding - providing a great counterpoint for the Beach Boys-esque
vocal harmonies. And nowhere is this more prominent than on the
CD's second track, "Sick
Fixation," which beautifully combines all these elements. "Sick
Fixation" plays like a B-side of a great Garbage tune - only
better.
Snow Gas Bones is a vibrant mess. But it's one that seethes with
originality and daring. Bravo. The only downside is that, every so
often, you find yourself wishing the NIN-like noise would pipe down
so you could enjoy the harmonies.
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