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Happy Birthday

    Sneaks, the solo moniker of Washington, DC's Eva Moolchan, returns with new album Happy Birthday. With astrological assertions alongside poetry filtered through a riot grrl spirit and set to thumping bass lines and infectious beats, Moolchan asks all of the questions but invites the listener to divine their own answers. Continuing the collaborative relationships from last year's Highway Hypnosis with mixing engineer Carlos Hernandez and legendary producer Jacknife Lee, Moolchan felt free to turn up the energy and explore more elaborate melodies than ever before. In "Mars in Virgo," she chants, "I've changed a lot now I'm all grown and / I got to grow up some more / I have changed now I'm all grown up / Now I have to grow up some more." Put on your headphones and let Sneaks lead you on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery that will keep you humming for days! 

    TRACK LISTING

    SIDE A.

    Do You Want To Go Out
    Tonight, Faith
    Mars In Virgo
    Sanity

    SIDE B.

    Scorpio On Your Side
    Slightly Sophisticated
    This World
    Winter Weather
    You’ve Got A Lot Of Issues

    Spoon

    A Series Of Sneaks - 2020 Reissue

      ‘A Series Of Sneaks’, Spoon's second studio album, released in 1998.
      Newly recut from the original masters.

      “Hints at the possibility of perfection” – Pitchfork.

      ‘A Series Of Sneaks’ is released as part of the Slay On Cue series, which will see the reissue of the band’s first eight records in original editions - Telephono (1996), Soft Effects EP (1996), A Series Of Sneaks (1998), Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill The Moonlight (2002), Gimme Fiction (2005), Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007) and Transference (2010).

      “Some of these albums haven’t been available on vinyl or CD in years, and in some places they never actually came out,” says frontman Britt Daniel.

      TRACK LISTING

      Utilitarian
      The Minor Tough
      Execution
      Reservations
      30 Gallon Tank
      Car Radio
      Metal Detektor
      June's Foreign Spell
      Chloroform
      Metal School
      Staring At The Board
      No You're Not
      Quincy Punk Episode
      Advance Cassette

      Jacknife Lee

      Hit The Bell / Firewalls Inc. Sneaks And Haviah Mighty & Petite Noir

        This is the second 7” released from the album “The Jacknife Lee” by “Jacknife Lee”. I absolutely loved the first two Sneaks albums, I just couldn’t get enough of them and I sent a fan letter to Eva saying if she ever wanted a studio or anything i would love to help out, and so we began working together. She sends ideas and I send her ideas. “Hit The Bell” was one of those. Eva came up with the chorus and then it needed some verses. Haviah Mighty released one of my favorite records last year so I asked her to try something.

        Petite Noir’s “Blame Fire” and “Beach” blew me away. We met up in London last summer and came up with “Firewalls” one night. This is one of my favorites on the album.

        Sneaks

        Highway Hypnosis

        Sneaks, a.k.a. Eva Moolchan, emerges from the male-dominated Baltimore-Washington punk scene, joining the resistance forged by queer black feminists who create, explore, empower, conquer, and play bass. Highway Hypnosis combines bewitching beats and invented words, to produce what Clash Magazine described as “stripped down hip-hop, skeletal post-punk, and extra-dimensional pop music.” Recorded at New York’s Silent Barn in 2017, Highway Hypnosis was co-produced by Carlos Hernandez (of Ava Luna), Tony Seltzer (Princess Nokia), and Eva Moolchan herself. A glimmering anthem shrouded in an atmosphere of darkness, her first single “Beliefs” drops its bass along with a call to arms for all non-believers whose mantra is assigned: “Remove your beliefs and start again / ’cause all I wanna do is start again.” Among laughter samples and charming vocals featured on the album lie one club banger, your little sister’s anti-meat school lunch protest song, a 55-second epic bass surprise, and a Jacknife Lee (Taylor Swift, Bat for Lashes, R.E.M.) production credit on “Hong Kong to Amsterdam.” 

        STAFF COMMENTS

        Barry says: Brilliantly rhythmic dubbed-out beats, angular synth-pop and Moolchan's visceral vocal delivery. As dark as it is absorbing, 'Highway Hypnosis' is an essential addition to the scene, and an absolutely stunning listen. Top stuff.

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Highway Hypnosis
        2. The Way It Goes
        3. Ecstasy
        4. Suck It Like A Whistle
        5. Addis
        6. Saiditzoneza 
        7. Money Don’t Grow On Trees
        8. Cinnamon
        9. Holy Cow Never Saw A Girl Like Her
        10. Beliefs
        11. And We’re Off, A Lil Close
        12. Hong Kong To Amsterdam

        It's a Myth is Sneaks' 2nd album. With little more than a bass, drum machine, and deadpan vocals, Sneaks, a.k.a. Eva Moolchan, makes minimalist music that takes up space - something she herself has made a point of doing in the male-heavy Washington, D.C., DIY punk scene that has been her home. Moolchan's compelling songwriting, along with the fervid energy of her shows, prompted breakout D.C. label Sister Polygon to release her 2015 debut Gymnastics, which Merge reissued in September 2016.

        It's a Myth builds on Sneaks' playfully stark approach to post-punk, which, as her hometown City Paper described it, causes listeners to go "from curious to provoked to hungry." Hungry, in part, because the new album clocks in at just 18 minutes of 10 taut, captivating tracks (but still a feast compared to Gymnastics' 14 minutes). It also adds Jonah Takagi and Ex Hex/Helium frontwoman Mary Timony, who recorded the album at Timony's D.C. studio. "She's got art in her brain," Timony has said of Moolchan. "Her brain is making beautiful stuff." Though it flows from influences like Pylon and Bush Tetras, much of that beautiful stuff is hard to categorize or compare to anything else. It’s herkyjerky and fluid all at once, childlike and yet deeply perceptive.

        TRACK LISTING

        Inside Edition,
        Look Like That,
        Not My Combination,
        Hair Slick Back,
        Devo, PBNJ,
        Act Out,
        Daffodils,
        With A Cherry On Top,
        Future.


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