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By: Lionel Bitchie
Date: 20th Nov 08
Release: Cassette
To Cure: A predictable playlist
What:
Double Snake Hollow
Who:
Secret Birds
Where:
Supporting PIVOT & My Disco, The Zoo, 711 Ann St, Fortitude Valley
When:
Fri Nov 28
On:
Weird Appendage
Win:
Wanna catch these bad boys next week with PIVOT & My Disco? We have 2 dbl passes to giveaway. Email your full name to win@fourthousand.com.au with the subject line ‘You'd be plain crazy to miss this show'.
When sounds gets sciencey, don't think Bunsen burners and bubbling liquids; think Secret Birds. The band itself is an evolution of the facets of the Brisbane music scene (in layman's terms - lots of dudes from lots of other bands) - they have 4, sometimes 5, sometimes 6 members - and they don't say so much as boo. All guitars, all drums and some keys, there surely must be a science to sounding so very hypnotic, so very down-tempo and so very intoxicating.
Double Snake Hollow is the bands debut cassette! With just three impressive tracks winding up both the A and B sides, title track Double Snake Hollow is thick and heady with vibrating reverb. The minimal, nihilistic sound of The Wizards Cloak beats down on your eardrums in a similar rhythm to rain trickling down a lonely sewer, and then, right about the time the folk-like guitar solo chimes in - the water reaches the depths of release (!) bursting into a river, and you, just like the rain, float away down a winding stream.
Look, it's all very mysterious and you really need to see-it, hear-it and feel-it live for yourself. BYO umbrellas, life jackets, hallucinogens.