Azalia Snail - Celestial Respect

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3...according to our Phil on Thu 23 Jun, 2011.

Azalia Snail = blast from the past! I remember picking up the split 7" she did with Sebadoh back in 93. That's almost 20 years ago. Yikes! Ms Snail has been knocking music out since 1989 and since then there have been 12 albums and countless singles. She may well be a name you've not heard of before but for those who know of her she's their little secret. She makes a sterling honest sounding brand of lo-fi bedroom 4 track space pop with dreamy vocals, simple drum machine beats, synths, guitars. There's a few instrumentals on there which are all spacey and strange sounding but they're in the minority sandwiched in between a bunch of pop songs. It's very quirky and unique sounding and if you're after something a bit different but still pop then you should check this out.

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“...the absolute queen of hypnotic, otherworldly benevolence…
one of our most undervalued treasures”
~ Joe S. Harrington, Magnet
Azalia Snail started her musical career in the late 1980s working on a
soundtrack for her own experimental films & quickly settled into the
four-track cassette recording culture making personal & introspective
pop songs influenced by musical heroes like Syd Barrett & Brian Eno.
Over the years she’s recorded a dozen albums; toured extensively across
the world; & collaborated with the likes of Alan Sparhawk (Low), Beck,
Grasshopper (Mercury Rev), Pall Jenkins (Black Heart Procession), & Daniel Oxenberg
(Supreme Dicks) to name a few. Over twenty years into her career she still continues to
make her own refreshing style of music that you can’t find anywhere else. Azalia Snail has
been on the Silber periphery for years with her special version of lo-fi space pop & we’re
proud to bring her into the family & into your ears.
On Celestial Respect Azalia takes us on a musical journey that pays tribute to the power of
the sun & the hope it can bring to us all in the strife of the convenient yet often disheartening
modern world. “Space Heater” speaks of the simple yet sometimes neglected need for human
warmth & companionship. “User System” touches on the deceitful aspects of a companionship
gone awry; “Death Gets in the Way” half jokingly riddles with the quest for eternal
togetherness interrupted by death itself & our fragile mortality. What makes Azalia shine
is her ability to take serious subjects & combine them with a sense of wimsy & playfulness,
yet she recognizes that life in fact isn’t a dichotomy. It’s not simply positive & negative. It is
what you make it; so let’s try to make it a better place. A fantastic place that can provoke &
intrigue; a place for us ALL to shine & thrive, whilst paying respect to the celestial eternity.