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In The Place

by Snazzback

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Snazzback's debut vinyl LP! Pressed to heavyweight 180g wax, with full-colour insert and sleeve notes.

    Please note the vinyl release does have a different tracklist!:

    Side A

    Alice Ft. China Bowls
    Drunq Choirs
    Ponder Ft. Solomon OB
    Reading

    Side B

    The Hub
    3 Kings
    YumYum Ft. China Bowls (Album Version)
    Snazzual Ft. Soss
    BST Ft. China Bowls

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1.
Caught in the ripple of her smile, the edges are melting Thoughts dragged out with the tide and you can’t escape your mind And we’ve been living inside out, the edges are burning Thoughts dragged out with the tide And you can’t escape your mind, won’t escape your mind In the ripple of her smile, and you can’t escape your mind Thoughts dragged out with the tide and you won’t escape your mind Here, fold it away, fold it away Hear, all in it’s place, all in it’s place Caught in the ripple of her smile, the edges are melting Thoughts dragged out with the tide And you can’t escape your mind won’t escape your mind And we’ve been living inside out The houses are burning Smoke cradled by the sky Caught up in beams of light Beams of light In beams of light Smoke cradled by the sky In beams of light In beams of light In beams of light Smoke cradled by the sky And we’ve been living inside Living in silence Living inside Living in silence Is this living Is this living Here, fold it away, fold it away Hear, fold them away, fold them away Here, fold it away, fold it away Fold it away Fold it away Fold it away Fold it away Fold it away Fold them away She is a mirror to you She is a mirror to you She is a mirror to you
2.
Drunq Choirs 01:45
3.
Do you wonder if I'm, Do you ever wonder if I'm, Said, I wonder if I'm, Wonder if I'm waiting Ponder, time is taking Too long Ruminate on past to try predict my future Exercise is futile Constant forward motion seem a certain strangeness Ruminate on past but know that I can't change it Ruminate on past to try predict my future Exercise is futile Constant forward motion seems a certain strangeness Ruminate on past but know I can't make changes Try to plot my path or map on constellations Deep beneath the darkness felt the flames awaiting Trying, seeking balance Trying for new cadence Reaching for a past that's now evaporated Crevice, in the corner Just of my imagination Distant lands and times and spaces Pacing back and forth through corridors of my mind That so easily might haunt my peace if I'm not cautious So I seek release from torture Of time Candlelight inside my eyes The furnace burning bright And slowly stars begin to shine in lines That sketch Orion's belt somewhere above my thigh Answers for my help it seems I seem to find What's happening? What is this place? This space? I'm...
4.
Reading 10:05 video
5.
It’s not a feeling of waiting It’s more still than that It's an ocean full of whirlpools And were at the bottom of one Still, like a fossil of time Shoot us up a water fountain of bodies Currently not shape-shifting, we are gas and heavy to we breathe ourselves into our lung spondees Like air hooking underneath other air Open-handed to the point of no return Open-handed until we become inverted
6.
Triangle 10:07
7.
A ripple on the surface of something you'd taken for granted would be solid and hold your weight, Feel yourself sinking down A ripple on the river of a memory changing with age - as we all will someday The things that we deny to survive Another day, a new way to declare yourself alive Pray someone will hear you as you scream it out into the night Into the night Into the night
8.
The Hub 02:17
9.
3 Kings 01:29
10.
What you see has always been here Collecting dust upon the side Ground yourself with papers thinning You just had to hold it right What you see now it has been here Collecting dust upon the side Hold yourself to paper thinning out You just had to hold it right And they call out your name not as it was then but as they can remember it Remember Emboldened by your name Embroidered on my skin A quiet kind of grace Yet still imagining unravelling What you see has always been here Collecting dust upon the side Found itself illuminated Faded slowly by the light What you see has always What you see has always What you see has always Ground yourself in paper thinning Soon decaying with your mind
11.
Crack a can of Coors on the Grand Canyon tour. He stuck out like a sore thumb at the hand manicure. Rap cannibal catch a cannonball in a hat of straw. I stay laxed on the ball. Barely had the funds for a favour. But earned his doctrine in unskilled labour. Moving on swiftly, cruising up shits creek, painting the blues of the Mississippi. In a jiffy play with the mood of the inner city. I keep my thoughts on my forte. Fall straight don't fall short when the calls made. All braise when you're caught in the storm chase. Poor traits on your portrait leave a raw stain. Gourmet but the flavour was poor taste. For forks sake cut the tension with a butter knife, plenty more games to play in another life. Hide from the sunrise coz the fun had died. Puzzled eyes, but still unsuprised. Operator, I need a number for the next thrill. He rapped like a monochrome benny hill sketch still buggin' out to the bubonic symphony. The fuse running out on the whodunnit trilogy. I hope to see the fruits of the finished piece. May I have this dance and groove to the rhythm, please?
12.
Held tight by the words you’re depending on Held tight sits on the edge of your tongue Held tight by the words you’re suspended from Held tight, held tight High tide in the world you’re depending on High tide, sits on the edge of this life Held tight by the worst you are depending on Always slipping through your grasp Before it’s started is ending And all your hesitation bated breath it mounts Always losing time Choose to trust in light Though the moment’s hard to bear it’s always passing by Held tight by the words you’re depending on Held tight sits on the edge of your tongue Held tight by the worst you’re suspended from Held tight by the high tide High tide in the worst you’re depending on Held tight, sits on the edge of your tongue Held tight by the world you’re suspended from Held tight, sits on the edge of your high tide, this life Started to feel it once the silence came Longer than she thought that she could take Knowing full well there’d be no going back As if there ever is Started to feel it once the silence came Longer than she thought that she could take Knowing full well there’d be no going back As if there ever is And she goes, and she goes and she goes with herself And she goes she goes Started to feel it once the silence came Longer than she thought that she could take Knowing full well there’d be no going back As if there ever is All your hesitation it mounts, it renders you undone All your hesitation it mounts it is Always chasing time Choose to trust in light Though the moment’s hard to bear it’s always passing by It is always All your hesitation is over now All your hesitation is ending here All your hesitation it is over now All your hesitation it is ending here

about

New wave dancefloor instrumentalists Snazzback release stunning second album on new label from Bristol’s cultural instigators, Worm Disco Club.

Bristol seven-piece Snazzback bring the sound of reopened dancefloors, of communal release, and of the joyful sound of dancing outside in the sunshine to live music. Their second album ‘In The Place’ overflows with deep grooves and loose, lolloping rhythms that tease and play, sometimes languid and carefree, other times energy spiralling upwards – and taking the listener with them, each and every time. Their music is soaked in great black American dancefloor music, whether that’s the sound we call ‘jazz’ or hip hop. They also bring other flavours – interlocking Afro-Latin rhythms, electronica and hypnotic rock, all marinated in Bristol’s long musical histories.

The album rests on the band’s hypnotic, rolling musicality and inventive bringing-together of sounds, evident in their phenomenal live performances which were honed in legendary city centre busking sessions and locally-famous venue residency. They’re mad tight and heavily dextrous, a band who are tuned into each other and into the extended family of their audiences. Tracks like ‘Reading’ suggest a smoked-out Ezra Collective or Moses Boyd, whilst ‘Triangle’ brings powerfully scuzzed-out guitar sounds into the mix.

Vocalists join them on a few tracks: Solomon OB, Soss and STANLÆY (on the digital release). Vocalist China Bowls appears four times, including opening track ‘Alice’, a sun-blessed deep jam that swoops and dives around the beautifully earth-bound rhythm section and which evokes Little Dragon gone groove-deep, and at the end, on closing track ‘B.S.T’. The track began life as a spin-off from a jam on their debut album ‘Hedge’ which captured their live performances in full glory. Over time, it absorbed gorgeous new harmonies and is a perfect end point for this colour-saturated snapshot of Snazzback’s musical universe.

‘Hedge’, which came out in 2018, received heavyweight support from Tom Ravenscroft on BBC Radio 6 Music, Jamie Cullum on BBC Radio 2, and Soweto Kinch’s show on BBC Radio 3 along with national indie support on Worldwide FM, Soho Radio and of course South West stalwarts Noods and SWU.FM speak to their broad appeal. 

‘In The Place’ was recorded in their tiny self-built studio. They wrote together, improvising sounds into a sonic scrapbook, with more production, electronics and ambient sounds than their previous live recordings. The album was fed by the band’s deep community connections in the city, but also by the music the players listen to: Portico Quartet, Hendrix, Rip Rig & Panic, Azymuth and iconic sax player Shabaka Hutchings to name just a few. There’s an openness to collaboration, experimentation with unconventional sounds, and an exploration of genres outside of an immediately obvious palette.

They have the kind of creative abundance that bands only achieve through years playing together. In Snazzback’s case that includes busking and gigs all over the South West. The band met through a myriad of low-key but powerful Bristol spaces: People’s Front Room, Leftbank and Jam Jar among other places. They’re locally famous for their distinctive, care-free and funk-punky city centre busking sessions – ‘strictly impromptu street jams’ as the band call them. Busking can be a huge amount of graft, says Rich Allen, who plays bass. “Lugging gear out, playing in the blazing sun and freezing cold, putting up with shit from people… Musically it’s incredibly freeing as you don’t owe your audience anything. They haven’t paid to be there. If it all falls apart while you’re busking, who cares! The risk-taking has definitely fed through to our live shows.”

It’s an attitude and sound that has wowed audiences at Glastonbury, Shambala and Boomtown and at their weekly residency at the influential Gallimaufry. Each week they’d learn a whole new sound or songbook – dubstep, Curtis Mayfield, Brazilian music or film soundtracks – and re-interpreted the sounds with their own flavours. Their December 2020 Bandcamp release was recorded on the Galli’s roof and is titled ‘Koch Loch’ in celebration of the venue’s main man James Koch.

Bristol has always had its own sound and now there’s a crop of young players. Snazzback are revitalising the scene, and soon they’ll be revitalising dancefloors again too, on their UK tour starting July 21st.

Tracks A1, A3, A4, B3, B5 recorded and engineered by Chris Langton at Snazzlab, Bristol.
Tracks A2, B1, B2, B4 recorded and engineered by Nick Dover at Canyon Sound, Bristol.
Produced and mixed by Chris Langton.
Additional mixing by Nick Dover at Canyon Sound, Bristol.
Mastered at Optimum Mastering, Bristol.
Illustration and design by Patch D Keyes.

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released July 23, 2021

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Snazzback Bristol, UK

⚡️New wave dancefloor instrumentalists ⚡️

⚡️Snazzback's music overflows with deep grooves and loose, lolloping rhythms that tease and play, sometimes languid and carefree, other times energy spiralling upwards.⚡️

⚡️Tickets and dates here: linktr.ee/snazzback
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