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These Arms Are Snakes
Also Playing: DD/MM/YYYY
612-338-8388
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Sun Sep 20
9:30 pm
These Arms Are Snakes and DD/MM/YYYY at 7th Street EntryConsidering These Arms Are Snakes’ sound—post-hardcore that’s equally melodic and grating—it’s not surprising that last year’s Tail Swallower And Dove isn’t a slice of sunny indie pop. The Seattle group’s third full-length ventures further into dark, abstract, textured brutality, and as such isn’t particularly hooky. Nor is it particularly rocking—and unfortunately, that middle ground winds up being less than memorable. Fortunately, TAAS is another matter live, when vocalist Steve Snere stalks the stage with a venomous intensity. Canadian band DD/MM/YYYY makes music that’s less clumsy than its moniker. But only just: The group’s clunky synthesizers and bratty chants mesh like sticks in bike spokes with some jerky, disorienting, inside-out disco beats.7th Street Entry 701 1st Ave. N., Twin Cities, MN
Considering These Arms Are Snakes’ sound—post-hardcore that’s equally melodic and grating—it’s not surprising that last year’s Tail Swallower And Dove isn’t a slice of sunny indie pop. The Seattle group’s third full-length ventures further into dark, abstract, textured brutality, and as such isn’t particularly hooky. Nor is it particularly rocking—and unfortunately, that middle ground winds up being less than memorable. Fortunately, TAAS is another matter live, when vocalist Steve Snere stalks the stage with a venomous intensity. Canadian band DD/MM/YYYY makes music that’s less clumsy than its moniker. But only just: The group’s clunky synthesizers and bratty chants mesh like sticks in bike spokes with some jerky, disorienting, inside-out disco beats.
Updated 09/10/2009
