Tuesday 6 March 2007

Snowden



Snowden are a four-piece American indie rock band from Atlanta, Georgia.
Starting off as the bedroom dreamings of front man Jordan Jeffares the band have expanded into a bright and dynamic collective, with a pounding, upbeat rhthym section and dischordant guitars. They quickly grew in stature supporting the likes of Arcade Fire across the pond.
Clear influences are to be taken from both Interpol and The Dismemberment Plan but enough infectious originality shines through on their debut album 'Anti-Anti' which takes them a notch above the seemingly endless wave of noisy new bands travelling over the Atlantic. There is both a sense of melancholy and eager dancefloor bombast throughout leaving you quite at odds with yourself by the time the disc has stopped spinning. In fact this is one of the most impressive debuts I've heard from a band in quite a while, owing possibly to the fact the songs have been worked on for a number of years before being fully realised in a band setting. The songs had already found their feet and they're waiting for you right now to discover.

The fantastic light show that makes up the 'Anti-Anti' video, from the album of the same name..



Track six from the album.. (right click & save as)
Between The Rent and Me

More tracks and information available at..
http://www.snowden.info
http://www.myspace.com/snowden



Johnny x

5 comments:

Radio Protector said...

This is fucking awesome.

E!

Anonymous said...

woo! love it. his vocals kinda reminded me of clap your hands n say yeh. which i also like muchly have listened to this song every day for about a week! Have to get myself a copy of that album methinks

lor!

Anonymous said...

oh i jus remembered

http://www.kissatlanta.com/blog/

i got a remix through stereo gum but this person has a bunch of others

copied from the post.....

The Year of the Pig? No…
Posted by Preston Craig on February 19th, 2007
… it is more appropriately the year of the remix and now it’s Snowden’s turn to get their sound re-worked. If you’ve been reading the heavy-hitters this week, then you’ve already gotten a few of the exclusive remixes via Stereogum, Bigstereo, and The Yellow Stereo. Now it’s time to release all of the goods. The EP contains remixes by Le Castle Vania (ATL), Treasure Fingers (ATL), Captain Crunk (ATL via PHX) and Jordan himself under the psuedonym Stutter.

My personal favorites have to be Stutter’s “Kill the Power” and Treasure Finger’s “Anti-Anti” remixes.

With Snowden being pro-filesharing, this remix EP is being released for free, so that you may indulge in all the guilt-free downloading and sharing you can handle.

So, without further ado… I give you… Fuel of The Celebration - The Remixes.

1. Black Eyes (Le Castle Vania Remix)
2. Anti-Anti (Treasure Fingers Remix)
3. Kill the Power (Stutter Remix)
4. Between the Rent and Me (Captain Crunk Remix)
5. Anti-Anti (Stutter Remix)
6. Dreams (Stutter Fleetwood Mac Remake)

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Ed said...

I just noticed that Snowden have two bassists. This owns.

Ed said...

I bought the album today. Not from a shop, no. FROM AN ALLEY. That's hardcore.

Just across the road from Iceland on Byres Road, there's an alley leading to a bunch of shops I'd never seen before. There was a CD stall with numerous pop albums they were trying to get rid of, but Anti-Anti was buried amongst them for £3.50.

Win.