Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens (2018)
Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:30:07 | 216 Mb
Punk Rock, Garage Rock, Post-Hardcore | Label: Sub Pop Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:30:07 | 216 Mb
Punk Rock, Garage Rock, Post-Hardcore | Label: Sub Pop Records
Teeming with revved-up riffs and apocalyptic imagery, the post-hardcore group’s first album since 2005 reasserts their status as the most merciless band in their scene.Tracklist:
During their initial 1999 to 2005 tenure, Hot Snakes were indie rock’s greatest and most rewarding consolation prize. After Rick Froberg and John Reis’ previous band, Drive Like Jehu, unceremoniously disbanded following their 1994 prog-punk masterpiece, Yank Crime, and as Reis’ concurrent group—brass-knuckled garage-rockers Rocket From the Crypt—started exhibiting more of an Interscope-sanctioned pop polish, Hot Snakes emerged to reassert the deadliest twin-guitar attack in post-hardcore. For long-time followers of Froberg and Reis, the new band represented the best of both worlds: all the contorted discord of prime Jehu, delivered with the street-gang swagger and participatory appeal of early RFTC.
But like Jehu before them and RFTC just after, Hot Snakes came to a sudden, screeching halt in 2005, as the principal duo disentangled to pursue more streamlined takes on what had come before (Froberg in Obits, Reis with the Night Marchers), among others. Of course, there’s no such thing as a true break-up anymore: within a decade, RFTC, Jehu, and Hot Snakes were all hitting the reunion-tour circuits, with attendant reissue campaigns to further court a new generation that was losing their shit to spiritual successors like Metz and Pissed Jeans. Now, we finally get the first new music to result from all those reboots. And while Jehu may seem like the band with the most unfinished business to tend to, Hot Snakes have gamely stepped up to become the true flagship act from this bunch.
Jericho Sirens is a reunion in the high-school sense of the term, corralling everyone who’s ever called themselves a Hot Snake. Where the band’s first two records featured former Delta 72 drummer Jason Kourkounis and their third replaced him with RFTC stickman Mario Rubalcaba (later of OFF! and Earthless), the new album features appearances from both. No matter who’s behind the kit, Jericho Sirens’ unwavering thwack attack and chain-whipped tambourine rattle soundly reassert Hot Snakes’ status as the most merciless band in the Froberg/Reis nexus. Even at their fiercest, Rocket From the Crypt songs were always fueled by a classic rock’n’roll abandon, while Jehu’s art-punk epics balanced the visceral with the cerebral. But on this LP, each of Reis’ and Froberg’s revved-up riffs feels like a nasty sucker-punched elbow to the ribs, each piercing staccato guitar line a finger poking at the bruise.
Jericho Sirens releases the pause button as if Hot Snakes had been locked in freeze-frame for the past 14 years, instantly thrusting them back into action on the frenzied “I Need a Doctor.” With its manic expressions of helplessness and desperation (“I need to be near a toilet!”), the song seemingly invites interpretations tied to America’s current political crisis and ongoing healthcare nightmare. And certainly, the marauding “Death of a Sportsman,” with its graphic depiction of a doomed big-game hunter (“What is left of him ain’t worth sending home!”), works as an unsubtle eat-the-rich metaphor. But Froberg has been the very embodiment of wiry agitation and tinfoil-chewing tension for the past quarter century, no matter who’s running the country. All that pleading for medical attention you hear on “I Need a Doctor”? If you take the band at their word, it’s a simply a request for an MD’s note to skip out of an office Christmas function.
Hot Snakes always sounded like Froberg and Reis eagerly getting a head-start on their cranky-old-man years; this is a band, after all, whose most potent, clear-eyed mission statement was called “I Hate the Kids.” On this album, it sounds like they’re already bracing for the end of their lives, if not the world. No fewer than three songs feature the word “death” in their titles, and even its most intimate scenes are rendered in apocalyptic terms. The closest thing to a love song here, Jericho Sirens’ arresting title track, finds Froberg seeking solace in his partner from the tinnitus piercing his brain, evoked vividly by the song’s bulldozer swing and ominous melodica refrain.
As that track’s rousing shout-along chorus illustrates, Hot Snakes are still refining the melodic sensibility they flashed on “Plenty for All,” the song that brought 2004’s Audit in Progress to a surprisingly congenial conclusion. On Jericho Sirens, an 80-second hardcore strike like “Why Don’t It Sink in” is immediately answered by a steady-pulsed rocker like “Six Wave Hold-Down,” where the tense guitar strums loosen into a resonant jangle, and Froberg’s seething bark assumes a more plaintive tone. And for all its perpetual discontent, Jericho Sirens is not without its moments of joy—even if they’re delivered through a song called “Death Camp Fantasy.” Atop a brisk motorik punk backbeat, Froberg rhetorically asks, “Have I been preyed upon?” before inviting the whole band—and, no doubt you, at home—to sing along to those words, transforming a moment of private anguish into celebratory group therapy. Panic and paranoia may be the default mental state of our times, but, to quote an old hardcore koan, maybe partying will help.
01. I Need A Doctor
02. Candid Cameras
03. Why Don't It Sink In?
04. Six Wave Hold-Down
05. Jericho Sirens
06. Death Camp Fantasy
07. Having Another?
08. Death Doula
09. Psychoactive
10. Death Of A Sportsman
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