Release
date: February 14th 2017. Label: Self Released. Format: CD/DD
Leap
Of Love – Tracklisting
1.Leap of Love 07:20
2.Lie4U 05:30
3.Hot Pavement 05:23
4.Spirit Cave 07:36
5.Lavish Sum of
Dread 03:30
6.Sister Margaret
05:52
7.Dreamcoated 04:38
8.Too Late Who Cares
04:41
9.Get Lost, Be Mine
06:14
10.Cecilia 02:36
11.Big Seize 04:04
12.Take My Breath
06:39
Band
Members
Pete August: Guitar
Vinnie Fiore: Drums
Jerry Jones: Vocals
Joe Laga: Guitar
Jesse Marianni:
Bass, Keys
Review
New
Jersey's Super Snake play an almighty mixture of riff fuelled
psychedelic rock laden with hazy elements of shoegaze, noise, doom
and stoner rock resulting in a beautiful melting pot of ideas, sounds
and styles that really pays off. The band (formed by vocalist Jerry
Jones of NJ powerhouses Trophy Scars) have created a sound that will
consume you with its epic nature while retaining a catchy and
accessible nature to it with songs that will be stuck in your head
for an age.
The
Super Snake experience starts on this album with the albums title
track, a song on which a dreamlike feel encases your mind while the
riffs on show will demolish it and this dynamic is one that the band
focusses on throughout Leap Of Love, it's an intoxicating mixture
that will capture your imagination thoroughly.
Lie4U
carries on this sweeping start while Hot Pavement ups the energy with
its confident swaggering sound with Jones powerful vocals taking
centre stage on this brushing stomp. There are also sprawling songs
on Leap Of Love, especially the expansive Spirit Cave, a song that
takes in many twists and turns and is never anything other than fully
immersive in its scope and execution and the differences in sounds
all come together magnificently.
Lavish
Sum Of Dread is an apt title and the song sounds exactly like its
intention in sonic form while songs like Sister Margaret, Too Late
Who Cares and Get Lost, Be Mine are strutting anthems that sound like
focussed jams that Kyuss would have been proud of. Even the more
understated and mellow songs in the album like Cecilia evoke a
passionate reaction from the band. The album ends with the urgent
vibrancy of the huge sounding Big Seize and as the anthemic and
dreamlike Take My Breath finishes things off, you are left under no
illusion that you have just been listening to sheer brilliance.
One
thing that strikes you more and more when listening to the album is
the bands majestic use of keyboards which enhances the sound even
more (especially on Spirit Cave) and makes the psychedelic elements
really stand out and take centre stage, something the noise rock
element does as well, in fact the whole melding of everything sounds
immense and makes the music of Super Snake as special as it is . The
production on the album (by the band along with Dillinger Escape
Plan's Kevin Antressian) is superb and the songs explode out of the
speakers with a vibrant lust for life.
This
is a collection of epic songs that owe as much to bands like Swans,
My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive as it does to Sabbath and the
Melvins and if you throw in the Stooges, the Thirteenth Floor
Elevators, Monster Magnet and Butthole Surfers too, you can get a
pretty good idea of what Leap Of Love sounds like, and above all it
sounds absolutely amazing. Super Snake have crafted a genuinely
impressive and vibrant album in Leap Of Love, one that is a joy to
listen to and will be for so long to come.
Words
by Gavin Brown
