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Duct Tape & Shivering Crows **PRE-ORDER**

Duct Tape & Shivering Crows **PRE-ORDER**

Duct Tape & Shivering Crows **PRE-ORDER**

**PRE-ORDER WILL SHIP ON OR AROUND APRIL 8, 2022**

+ FIRST 500 VINYL PRE-ORDER CUSTOMERS WILL RECEIVE AN 11x17 FOLDED POSTER
 

+ INCLUDES IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD OF "CAMERA SHY"

 
+ 500 ON DIRTY SECRET VINYL - OPAQUE PINK BASE w/ COPPER BROWN SPLATTER (SUICIDE SQUEEZE RECORDS EXCLUSIVE) 

+ 500 ON ONE EYED JACKS VINYL - OPAQUE VIOLET IN TRANSLUCENT RED ECLIPSE
 
+ 2,000 ON HUNGOVER SPLATTER VINYL - CLEAR GREEN w/ OPAQUE PINK SPLATTER (RETAIL VARIANT)
 
+ GATEFOLD LP INCLUDES PRINTED INNER SLEEVES & DOWNLOAD CARD
 
+ 250 CASSETTES (ONE TIME RUN) w/ DOWNLOAD CARD
 
+ CD HOUSED IN A GATEFOLD CD JACKET w/ PRINTED INSERT
Over the course of their seven-year run back in the ‘00s, These Arms Are Snakes covered a lot of territory, both in terms of actual miles spent on the road and in terms of their creative bandwidth. Though the band was often mistaken for a typical non sequitur-named screamo outfit or another “animal” indie band, the Seattle group quickly defied expectations and garnered a reputation for subverting the popular underground sounds of time. The group cultivated a small but fervent fanbase across multiple continents with their signature combination of synth-infused noise rock, bad-trip psychedelia, flamboyant proto-metal boogie, and unhinged basement-show hardcore before imploding at the end of 2009. And while These Arms Are Snakes’ full-length albums remain fitting testaments to the band’s frantic urgency and stylistic fluidity, there is a treasure trove of deep cuts buried on b-sides and split releases that further reinforce their position as one of the weirdest and wildest acts of the decade. For the first time, those rarities and one-offs have been compiled into a cohesive overview of These Arms Are Snakes’ lifespan on the double LP Duct Tape & Shivering Crows.

 
The collection’s track listing runs in reverse chronological order, starting with one of These Arms Are Snakes’ final recordings, the fiery and fuzzed-out scorcher “Meet Your Mayor.” Originally appearing on a small-run split 7” with short-lived UK post-punkers Tropics, the album opener perfectly encapsulates the band’s penchant for hallucinatory guitar hooks, thick bass riffs, rhythmic punch and panache, and Steve Snere’s signature acerbic vocals. The remainder of side A is comprised of the band’s songs from their split LP with Russian Circles—“Camera Shy” and “Trix.” Both tracks showcase a throbbing, locked-in, and heavily punctuated rhythm section garnished with delay-drenched guitar leads—as if Jesus Lizard binged on King Crimson’s Red.

 
 

Side B of Duct Tape & Shivering Crows contains two covers—a rendition of Lost Sounds’ “Energy Drink and the Long Walk Home” from a split 7” with The Coathangers and a sinister twist on Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box” from Robotic Empire’s In Utero, In Tribute compilation. It also contains two b-sides from the group’s last two LPs. “Washburn” was cut from Tail Swallower & Dove due to vinyl time allowances and later showed up on a split 7” with All the Saints on Touch & Go Records. Similarly, “Old Paradise” didn’t make it onto Easter, but it served to evenly weigh both sides of the album’s lead single on the Good Friday 7”. Side C is dedicated to These Arms Are Snakes’ songs from their collaborative EP with Harkonen released on Hydra Head Records back in 2004. These two songs—“Payday Loans” and “Hook on This”—capture the band at their rowdiest moment… a total throwback to the early ‘90s San Diego-brand of unglued and chaotic hardcore. Side D takes the listeners all the way back to the band’s first demo: four woozy and noise-addled amalgams of math rock and post-punk that would later be polished up for their debut EP This Is Meant To Hurt You.

 
 

Taken as an overview of These Arms Are Snakes’ career, Duct Tape & Shivering Crows is an exhilarating study of the band’s sonic evolution, varied musical approaches, and consistent quality. Taken without the historical context or typical considerations for a compilation album, it’s still a cohesive and enthralling record with an arc that takes you from the razor-sharp refinement of their final years through the adrenalized prog-punk explorations of their mid-career work and ultimately ramps up to the narcotic frenzy of their earliest material. If you were a These Arms Are Snakes fan back in the day, this is a crucial addition to your library. And even if you were a dilettante or a naysayer, this collection serves as an exciting recontextualization a band that was often misunderstood and misrepresented by the media. Suicide Squeeze Records is proud to release Duct Tape & Shivering Crows to the world on April 15, 2022 on CD, cassette, digital formats, and 2xLP. First vinyl pressing limited to 3,000 copies: 2000 copies of clear green with opaque pink splatter “Hungover” variant, 500 of opaque violet in translucent red eclipse “One Eyed Jacks” variant, and 500 of opaque pink base w/ copper brown splatter “Dirty Secret” variant.

Track-listing:

1. Meet Your Mayor
2. Camera Shy
3. Trix
4. Energy Drink and the Long Walk Home
5. Heart Shaped Box
6. Washburn
7. Old Paradise
8. Payday Loans
9. Hook on This
10. Riding the Grape Dragon (Demo)
11. Run It Through the Dog (Demo)
12. Diggers of Ditches Everywhere (Demo)
13. The Blue Rose (Demo)

 

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1 minute ago, jhulud said:

Same. Traveled from FL just for the shows. Both nights were excellent. 

 

 

Jealous. I wanted to do both nights but my girlfriend was 9 months pregnant at the time and it took a lot to convince her to let me drive up there just for one of them haha.  I had tickets to both just in case but ended up attending the second night with Helms Alee. 

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As a huge fan who has an original copy of every one of the releases that helps make up the previously released portion of this (except  the Coathangers split), I definitely need to get this. It will be nice to have the RC split tracks on a piece of vinyl that wasn't cursed with one of the those toxic PVC sleeves. No love for the colors though. I feel like 3000 of these are going to take a while to sell if I was hoping for new presses to be not as colorful to choose from.

 

When I first saw the thread title I almost shit myself that this would be a new original LP from TAAS until I calmed down and read the entire thread title. This is still a nice surprise though.

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4 minutes ago, alwaysopenmouth said:

This is cool, some of those tracks so great. 
 

i hope this does well enough so they repress Easter because the prices on that album are sky high

Yeah, I'm hoping all three LP's get a reissue. Don't even really need to be remixed or remastered. There just needs to be more of them.

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Oh, by the way...on Suicide Squeeze's press release for this...there's this tidbit at the very end that can be interpreted in a plethora of ways...

 

Look for Duct Tape & Shivering Crows to be available on CD, cassette, digital formats, and 2xLP on April 15th and stay tuned for more news and music coming soon.

 

These Arms Are Snakes Announce Rarities Release 'Duct Tape & Shivering Crows' | Suicide Squeeze Records

 

 

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13 minutes ago, jhulud said:

Oh, by the way...on Suicide Squeeze's press release for this...there's this tidbit at the very end that can be interpreted in a plethora of ways...

 

Look for Duct Tape & Shivering Crows to be available on CD, cassette, digital formats, and 2xLP on April 15th and stay tuned for more news and music coming soon.

 

These Arms Are Snakes Announce Rarities Release 'Duct Tape & Shivering Crows' | Suicide Squeeze Records

 

 

Niiiiiiiiiiice...

 

I do hope they mean "more news and music" specifically regarding TAAS. They have to mean that, right?

 

Hoping for new music and reissues...

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I’m wondering why they insinuated that those two shows in Seattle were belated final shows after they split and didn’t have a chance to play them in 2009 if they have plans to move forward as a band. Either way, hoping that isn’t true and they release new music and tour.

 

Their inadvertent “final” show was an unceremonious tour stop at The Vera Project on October 17, 2009, and the set was cut short when a crucial piece of equipment died in a plume of black smoke and electrical sparks. The band paused to lick their wounds, and never managed to get back out into the wild. Almost 12 years later, These Arms Are Snakes return to the stage to put a more fitting cap on their whirlwind history. Is it a reunion? Not so much. Think of it more as an absurdly delayed final show.”

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36 minutes ago, Derek™ said:

I thirst for some TAAS reissues.

I have no idea why I didn’t buy everything when it first came out. I’m a real dipshit sometimes.

 
I think I’m in the minority here, but I’m always down for a box set when labels do full discography reissues.

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1 hour ago, MyEnemy said:

I have no idea why I didn’t buy everything when it first came out. I’m a real dipshit sometimes.

 
I think I’m in the minority here, but I’m always down for a box set when labels do full discography reissues.

100%. I’m a sucker for boxes. I own all of the albums but would still buy it if they did that.

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Love this band, I gotta say I really love this optimism of a TAAS boxset and/or the seemingly VERY unlikely prospect of new music. Will gladly buy either should it materialize. 

 

If I was gonna make a list of records I sold and came to regret parting with I'm sure Easter and Oxeneers would be near the top. Being in college and poor was such a drag. 

 

 

 

 

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