10 Past 12 / Unless You Try (2020)
I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know why I need six copies of this 12". But I do. The first pressing of this EP occurred pretty much right as the pandemic was getting underway and my record buying income was reduced to essential nil. I watched as the orange and green vinyl pressings of these albums sold out without me having bought them. I scraped together enough cash to at least get the version that Unless You Try was selling, but I felt sad and incomplete.
Then, it was repressed on three more colors of vinyl. So, I sold a 1980s Rat guitar pedal on eBay. This gave me the money to pounce on the Snuff website when they miraculously found a few more of the sold out first pressing copies. So I picked up four copies in total from them and the last one I needed on blue vinyl from Dead Broke. This was too complicated for me, but I just can't help how much I love Snuff and have for decades.
The songs on here are quite good too. Every Snuff record has at least a handful of transcendently incredible songs and this one is no exception. Opener "Drink Freely From The Chalice of Lunacy" is not only in the running for best Snuff songs of the past fifteen years or so, it's also a pretty good description of the year 2020 as a whole. Yes, have some. All of the songs on this EP are fun and provide an excellent follow up to the last Snuff full length, There's A Lot Of It About. I like the idea of more frequent Snuff releases, but next time I would prefer maybe two versions instead of six.
Snuff - The Wrath Of Thoth (This is a link to one of those link tree things that take you to a bunch of places you can stream the record, but really you should just go buy the vinyl, shouldn't you?)
https://ditto.fm/the-wrath-of-throf
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