Snappy Little Numbers (2021)
I eagerly await packages from Snappy Little Numbers. In addition to the pretty consistent quality of their releases, my favorite thing is how some records just come out of left field and are not the sort of thing I would have discovered if they were not coming out on a label I trust.
Case in point is The Christmas Bride. This is an album that doesn't fit neatly into any preconceived classification. The record is all kind of over the place, though it is bound together by pretty strong hooks in every song. Maybe in parts it has a pop punk vibe, but the guitar playing is out of this world with crazy riffage and leads that would really be more at home on a heavy metal world than how they're being used Dark Romance Of A Midnight Wanderer.
The other thing that I can't get out of my head is how I keep thinking a lot of these songs wouldn't be out of place as a non-parody song on a Weird Al record. Not that they're overly silly or humorous, but there's this energy and dynamic feeling about them that remind me of the sort of pastiches that Al has been perfecting over the last forty years.
Man, this has been kind of a shitty description of the album. Sort of pop punk, sort of Weird Al with heavy metal lead guitar? That sounds terrible, but this tape is not. It's a fun and interesting listen with songs written by an extremely talented guitar player and bristling with energy. That's the intangible quality that's so hard to capture but always makes me go back to an album again and again.
The Christmas Bride - Dark Romance Of A Midnight Wanderer Cassette:
https://snappylittlenumbers.bandcamp.com/album/dark-romance-of-a-midnight-wanderer
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