P U (2019)
Oh those Joh Reis bands. Always putting out records to sell at shows that are difficulty to acquire. While I am all about a tour only release, it always seems to feel like it is in conjunction with a tour that's not stopping by me. That just might be me complaining, but I've bought far fewer myself than those that had to be bought for me.
This 7" was released as part of a UK tour and I was lucky that a friend of mine was willing to pick up a copy. However, once they got home, Hot Snakes actually sold a handful of these on their website. That's the first time one of these tour releases was made available online. I hope that's a trend that continues, or that they make these exclusive releases more available for the East Coast tours.
The two songs on the 7" show once again why Hot Snakes are one of the best bands on the planet. "Checkmate" is a middle tempo track that reminds me a little bit of "Hair and DNA" as far as the way that the chorus hits. The verse is a bit more dynamic in the way that the guitars interplay. "Not In Time" is built off of straight ahead guitar downstroke riffige, maybe a little similar to a song like "Why Does It Hurt?" Both songs are stellar, just like pretty much everything else in the Hot Snakes catalog.
It makes me wonder if this is leading up towards another album. Jericho Sirens came out in 2018, so 2020 sounds like a good year for the next record. I am hopeful that I'll get a new Rocket From The Crypt record at some point, but I'm certainly not going to complain if we get another Hot Snakes release this year.
Hot Snakes - "Checkmate":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLusfdv5_iU
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