These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower and Dove

These Arms Are Snakes play with their history, with their personalities built deep into the music. You hear it in every innovation, behind each note. A beautiful collision of what has always been with what is completely unexpected. It’s evident in the weight of the words, structure of the songs, the linkage of current and construction: concrete writing, coupled with a natural approach to recording, that brought the band back into the semi-secret Red Room in Seattle, Washington, to track and mix.
The result is more an album – a coherent whole – than a cycle of individual songs. The music circles around, from beginning to end, looping seamlessly and devouring any sense of arrested motion. The first single, ‘Red Line Season’, is all guitar-hook-squirm, leading to an anthem of a chorus. ‘Seven Curtains’ explodes into being after thirtyseconds of gorgeous, low volume riffing. It’s here that the band’s strength in the studio really shows. From the textural depth of the keyboards and guitar tones, to the vocal delivery, the attention to detail is incredible. Each sound sets up huge spatial relationships, creating a dynamic tug-o-war, and building up a groove that continues throughout - marked by impossibly nimble drumming - blowing up the room with resonant vibration.
Vinyl version, on pink vinyl and white vinyl.

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