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Snowpony | Sea Shanties For Spaceships

Are cool Motörhead shirts enough?
CD, Dead Pan Alley/Munich

Tekst: Wilko van Iperen

Publicatiedatum: 14 mei 2002

Consisting of former members of My Bloody Valentine and Stereolab, Snowpony gets our hopes up high. Their second album, Sea Shanties For Spaceships, is a collection of bass-driven sample-pop with numb vocals. Nothing on the whole album really reminds one of either of the two aforementioned legendary British acts. But this shouldn't be a problem; it's probably even better than making cheap rip-offs of their old employers' songs.

Sea Shanties For Spaceships opens with the quite charming Crumpled 10, featuring played-back samples, flashes of Moog synths, funky drum rhythms, and idle singing. But you start getting worried when the second song (Pirates Gold) sounds exactly the same. The somewhat more traditional approach of Amsterdam immediately serves as a breather. This subtle song sounds much better than the forced note Into The Heart Of Dalston, with is cheeky power chords that sadly well up now and then in the songs. A Car I Didn't Own is a dance-tinged funk song, which gets you hoping for a variegated course for the rest of the record. And that's precisely the problem: That's not gonna happen. There's no variation in style, no subtle changes, no lighter compositions, just more of this stout sample pop. Try only if your stamina is large enough. (They've got cool Motörhead-like t-shirts though!)

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