Black-Eyed Snakes - Seven HorsesFirst new album from Low's Alan Sparhawks Black Eyed Snakes in 17 years. Starting abruptly, mid downbeat, the Black Eyed Snakes' new release opens up like walking into the room where the grit and groove has already been rolling, for who knows how long. In 1999 and 2001, the Snakes released two full length recordings that would lay the foundation and frame to what would become a unique and dynamic live force. Their shows are legendary a chaotic

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There was little indication that he would resurface four years later with an album as powerfully unsettling as Maxinquaye

This is our shit

a collection of songs completed before his death in 2003

bass and drum pound

The rhythmic backdrop and the style of the delivery makes it more than a spoken word album

Tim Hellman keeps it swinging like a battle-axe to the eyebrows

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Telling the Trees features: Anneliese Mackintosh | Anneke Kampman | Rachel Grimes | Kathryn Williams | Marnie | Kathryn Joseph | Martha Ffion | Sarah J

Simon & Garfunkel) at the helm

His songs feature an iraq war veteran back from the front (Peacemaker) and binge-drinking lasses on the tear (Shelia)

Fresh blood Paul Quattrone joins Dan Rincon to form a phalanx of interlocking double drums