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PURCHASE ANTI-ANTI:
iTunes
Amazon
Insound
Jade Tree
Stickfigure (vinyl)
BOOKING:
UK/Europe - David Exley
Coda Agency
USA - [email protected]
The Agency Group
MANAGEMENT:
Tim Sweetwood - Woods Entertainment
[email protected]
ADD SNOWDEN:
PRESS:
"Eventually the crowd silenced as it was announced that a fire marshal would need to check if Mercury Lounge was beyond capacity. After all of the hullabaloo, Snowden rapidly made everyone forget about the extended wait, starting with a sped up version of â€œBullets". For the second night in a row, a NYC crowd not known for dancing was again moving their feet and shaking their hips." -- NEW YORK PRESS
"Jeffares voice soars above the hauntingly icy bass lines and chilly atmospherics. Bombs and death rays, corporate decay, and failed or failing love are just some of the bleak themes the band explore, and their album's title track might offer the best solution to the hopelessness of it all." -- SPIN "The charm of Snowden's debut is its understated authenticity: Underneath all the accoutrements, these are Jeffares's bedroom songs, and it's not hard to extrapolate to their simpler days as anguished acoustic ballads." -- Village Voice
"The original Snowden taught Yossarian that man is matter-- kill us and we're dead. It's OK for stylish post-punk to matter, too, and Anti-Anti does so without forgetting to be fun." -- Pitchfork
"[Anti Anti's] balance of gloom and grandeur is brilliantly executed, ultimately leaving the listener with an insatiable thirst for more of the same." -- Drowned In Sound
"For all the discussion of concept, geography, and songcraft, it's the heart pulsing through the reverb that makes Anti-Anti a must-listen." -- Stereogum
"It's clear [Snowden] aren't willing to just turn on the cruise control through [their] show; the performance is more like a constant pulse between implosion and explosion with each member able to flail or pull back seamlessly." -- CMJ
"Such tracks as 'Black Eyes' prove that Snowden can play uneasy funk as well as its peers, but the music is most interesting when the band goes its own way." -- Washington Post
"Snowden's music sounds like Interpol's dark momentum getting tripped up on the Arcade Fire's treacherous terrain - lacquered bolts of guitar judder over off-kilter percussion, and anomic vocals blear through the densely layered mix." -- Paste Magazine
"On 'Anti-Anti' Snowden creates plenty more to admire than angry words. To find it, all you have to do is ignore the urge to dance long enough to sit down and listen." -- MSNBC
"Snowden lace their upbeat, catchy guitar stomps with thoughtful lyrics diametrically opposed to mindless hipsterism." -- Entertainment Weekly
"Anti-Anti is a cyclonic swirl of guitars approximating jet-engine drones, brackish cascades of water emanating from the bottom of a dank cave and shards of tuned barbed-wire." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"The Cure never delivered gloom so buzzy." -- URB

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/25/2003
Band Website: snowden.info
Band Members: Chandler , Corinne , David , Jordan

"Anti-Anti" video by Donald Emerson (okdonald.com)
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Jade Tree
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Daves Blog

I set up a blog. Check it out for more Snowden junk:www.no-payne.blogspot.com
Posted by Snowden on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:23:00 PST

Drowned In Sound

Review of London show...
Posted by Snowden on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:44:00 PST

MTV News

Raising Hell in the ATL...
Posted by Snowden on Sun, 06 May 2007 06:52:00 PST

CMJ

New CMJ live review...
Posted by Snowden on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:48:00 PST

Epinions

Surprisingly, one of the most comprehensive reviews of "Anti-Anti" can be found at Epinions.com... CLICK HERE
Posted by Snowden on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:50:00 PST

Washington Post

Anti-Anti blurb from DC......
Posted by Snowden on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:39:00 PST

Fall Touring Highlights

Belgium, you were such a wonderful start to our first time abroad as a band. Though Jordan's sleeping pills actually turned into stimulants on the plane and he arrived at 9am, awake for the last 48 hr...
Posted by Snowden on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:15:00 PST