The St Pierre Snake Invasion are a 5-Piece punk Band from Bristol combing strut, energy, sarcasm & filth – to create a unique blend of Punk/Garage/Alt/Rock. With live shows infamous for colourful language, bodily fluids and the ritual humiliation of audience members, BBC Introducing in Bristol have declared their set as “The most spectacularly committed performance I’ve seen in a long time”.
Bass player Mark Fletcher says of their new EP “This […] is our reply to a stagnant genre of music. It’s a return to a time when guitar music didn’t just mean characterless jangly [Avant-garde] or overly macho chest beating chugging. The title itself represents the fact that even when you put your heart and soul into music you’re still only voicing an opinion – and as much as you’re entitled to your opinions everyone else is entitled to ignore them.”
The St Pierre Snake Invasion will be releasing their EP “Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion” on April 30th 2013.
We had an early listen:
Opening track ‘Call The Coroner’ has elbows full of crunchy riffs. A cat yowls, demonstrating the start, and then the door cracks open. Damien swaggers in, with those musty vocals of his. He is like a demented scarecrow. Neglected and in disarray. And most pungent. But you cannot help but be fascinated by the kaleidoscope of sounds, and the crumbling vibe that those sounds create. The voice is ribald, earthy and vile … a shout here, a jealous sigh there. It’s all over in a few minutes. Then you will secretly scuttle back for more!
After distortion “Encore! Encore!” screams in. The demonic jestering is played out again, against a lumbering thump. “She loves you … she loves you not… ” He begs, with passion. They deride. The sludge filled guitar adds beer stained cartilage and sticky jello to the cooking pot of sounds. This song is both remorseful and disgusting. And we love it!
“U.S.S.A.” has a scatter-bomb tempo and jaunty guitars that fly off each other, like a ricocheting bullet in a concrete pill-box. It is an iron-girder of a song. Set against heavy chords, his voice is sulfuric and razzled – in a way that you thought was gone forever. Then ‘Hey Kids! Do The Choke Stroke’ has a simple bang-and-clap rhythm and a pubby sing along chorus. This is the punkiest offering on the EP, but it retains a Pythonesque sense of humour. And, despite its terminal theme, it conveys a strange lightness.
The EP concludes with ‘Say No To Stop Motion’. This has fuzzy folds of guitar and a voice that is manfully hissed through clenched teeth. The head-noddingly agreeable chorus is nicely spread between rich old-school bass play and some decent rat-a-tat drums. We bloody hate stop-motion, so any campaign (no matter how fraudulent,) aimed at raising awareness about this serious issue, is good in our book.
Check the ‘Call The Coroner’ (video) below.
-© Neil_Mach March 2013 –
Link:
http://www.facebook.com/thestpierresnakeinvasion
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MAY 10 GLOUCESTER, BLACK CAT
MAY 11 CHELTENHAM, 2 PIGS
MAY 23 BATH, THE PORTER
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AUG 31 ARCTANGENT FESTIVAL
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