Snooper

One Liner:  Unhinged, frenetic punk rock with new wave angles

Wikipedia Genre:  Punk Rock

Home: Nashville

Poster Position: 5 (23) 
Weekend Two Only.
Saturday.

Thoughts:  The actual band name is Snõõper, which is an entertaining thing before you even get to the frenetic tunes.  Those little tildes make it look like eyes with curious eyebrows over them.  Strangely, and I don't think I have seen this before, their debut album has a Wikipedia page, but the actual band does not have a Wikipedia page.  They are signed to Third Man (Jack White's label) and recorded in Nashville, so they are definitely a different animal than most.

By the way, Super Snooper, known as "Schnoop by Blabber," Snoop or Snooper, is an anthropomorphic cat, a detective, and one of the main characters of the Yogi Bear franchise. Didn't recall that factoid, did you!?!  The band though is made up of Connor Cummins and Clair Tramel.  This makes me pissed that Amyl and the Night Sniffers are not at the festival, because they rule.  Apparently, this is something called "egg punk," which I had to look up.  "influenced by Devo and a hatred for the us vs them mentality of the emerging "chain punk" bands.  Egg punk is satirical, danceable, energetic, and deeply cynical of the edgy "hardcore and serious" approach to music."  Well, that all sounds right.

The music is fun, wild stuff.  "Running" sounds like a cheerleader fronting a cover band that can't remember if it is supposed to be playing early B-52s or early REM.  Their most streamed song too, I think it jams.

Punk for sure, but also with a sheen of new wave on there.  I wanna dance in a crowd to it when the guitar solo kicks in.  Fascinatingly, that is one of their very early songs, from the 2020 EP Music for Spies.  

Only one real album - 2023's Super Snooper.  "Inventory" is a little much for an old man - too much dissonance and noise.  "Microbe" is somehow like a drum and bass song?  Lotta weird samples in here too - like some meathead bodybuilder talking about his routine.  They do an off-kilter cover of "Come Together" in their early stuff.  But not a lot of streams on most of this, which is too bad.  I think its ridiculous fun.  The top track from the new album is "Pod" with 135k.

That video is awful and it rules.  Just this girl yelling over an unhinged tune and a bunch of jacked up imagery.  I made a terrible stop motion movie in, like, middle school (please God don't tell me it was high school because it looked awful) where I remember being very clever for using Metallica's "One" along with a tiny slice of something from the Vaughan Brothers album.  I've been an insufferable music nerd forever.  Anyway, if it wasn't going to be at noon on Saturday, I'd go wig out to this.