Serpentine Pad

Panic will be the second full-length album by Serpentine Pad.
Available June 2009
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"At first glance, Manchester five-piece Serpentine Pad appear almost confoundingly chaotic, their tunes writhing and slithering all over the place in a viper's nest of coiled guitar lines and tangled bass...There's definitely a nod to Sonic Youth and Pixies in there, as many have already commented. Perhaps even stronger influences come from the likes of Captain Beefheart and Shellac (imagine a cross between the two, and you're approaching the ball-park...just about). Far more importantly though, there's also a generous helping of originality - Serpentine Pad don't sound quite like any other band around at the moment, and that alone is worthy of high praise"
- Metro (2008)
Serpentine Pad announce themselves as "Manchester's purveyors of the tastiest riffs" and yes, they're half joking, but their frenzied three guitar attack of mathematical surfpunk noisepop (no, I'm not sure either, but it made sense at the time) is rather excellent. It's always a delight to see a band who don't fit any pigeonholes but are equally devoid of any pretentious and obvious attempts at avoiding such. One ancestor would be the relentless onslaught of Mission Of Burma - let's hope they're looking after their ears. You get the feeling they would like to be playing louder, anyway. Despite playing quite a lot of songs their set seems to race by - "two songs to go and then you can go home" - sadly quite a few have already, but it's getting near last bus time I suppose - and they pull out a belter; all Dinosaur Jnr guitar mangling and a breathless rush of vocals.
- Cath Aubergine (music-dash.co.uk - 2009)
Tonight’s event focuses more on the dirtier, nosier factions of avante-garde rock. Local quintet SERPENTINE PAD brandish three guitars, a bass and drums as they execute a combination of skittered riffs, that veer off exciting drum slapshots. Each track is a charged rush of post punk, math-processed melodic onslaught. So, there’s plenty to bob along to as they pluck at Sonic Youth chord changes and punished bass lines that suggest that the influence of punk and new wave (via the Pixies) is never too far away. In essence though, It’s Serpentine Pad’s driven rhythms intermingled with the great instrumental passages, that get the blood flowing, coupled with the fact that each number comes in within a two to three minute barrier. Lessons for everyone else out there really.
- manchestermusic.co.uk (2009)
The Pad are loud. Really loud. In fact, unless you’ve seen them play, it’s a bit difficult to understand exactly how loud they are. Short, sharp and brutal. Rather than lure you into their world of music with the tickle of an aural feather, they smash you in the face with a Stratocaster shaped brick. Definitely worth seeing. Just don’t stand near the speakers.
- Simon Webbon (2009)