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SNOWDEN - Anti-Anti
| Drowned in sound |
| American east-coasters with bedroom roots, Snowden began life as the solo project of one Jordan Jeffares. Soon, the songs he penned grew into fully-realised beings, and a band became necessary to transfer his compositions from four walls of his home to rather grander surroundings....full text |
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| SpaceLab |
| Visiting Snowden's MySpace page, two things struck me immediately and made me smile. Under "influences" it says, "Everything. We're very impressionable." That and seeing among their visible (MySpace) friends indie popsters Of Montreal. It's not that there are pronounced similarities between the two bands, though both, in their own ways, produce catchy pop that is both highly accessible and unique, a rare combination. But the timbre of lead singer/songwriter Jordan Jeffares' voice is pleasantly like that of Kevin Barnes....full text |
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| All Music Guide |
| Snowden has been compared to the Cure and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but the indie rock outfit carves out their own swarthy sound on their Jade Tree debut, Anti-Anti. Thankfully, the Atlanta-via-Athens quartet's thawing post-shoegazer/dream pop blend has absolutely nothing to do with Interpol and the like, thus the album title says it all. Singer/songwriter Jordan Jeffares' droning vocals and David Payne's reverb-driven guitars surround these 12 nervy melodies for a lush atmosphere of sonic hysteria....full text |
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