Snapped Ankles
Bearded Theory – Did The Festival Live Up To The Hype?
Words and Pics by Andi Callen – All Rights Reserved Bearded Theory was touted by many to be THE line up of the summer, Glastonbury not included. And with a roll call including The Pretenders, Gary Numan, Public Service Broadcasting, Primal Scream, Echo & The Bunnymen, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Interpol, Gogl …
Live Review: Snapped Ankles – Huddersfield
Snapped Ankles’ first gig at Huddersfield’s Parish not only brought the group’s viscerally energetic heat to the cold West Yorkshire streets, but also featured literal usage of their environment in homage to their latest album (the sublimely melodic ‘Forest of Your Problems’); an enthralling audience-enveloped sermon during the title track of said album; as well …
100 albums of 2021 you shouldn’t miss, plus playlist
In a moment a folly, I (not me and my editorial team, or my writers, or indeed anyone) decided to make a playlist of the year. Not one of those in order ones, just a playlist of good records, written by the esteemed writers here at Backseat Mafia. I don’t know what possessed me to …
Live Review: Snapped Ankles / Mermaid Chunky – Crookes Social Club, Sheffield 23.10.2021, plus gallery
Words: PeteMo / Pictures: Nick Lowe Hailing from the basement & underground party scene of the east end of London, Snapped Ankles materialised like a strange & mythical apparition in front of an eager and discerning capacity crowd in the steel city, on a dank Saturday night. The venue, a working man’s club, dimly lit and heated to …
Say Psych: Live Review: Snapped Ankles @ Gorilla, Manchester 13.10.2021
Snapped Ankles were formed in 2011 out of one of east London’s warehouse communities and have continued their unimagined rise ever since. They defy convention at every turn from wearing pieces of forest to making their own instruments and with the success of their latest LP Forest of your Problems they have embarked on a …
Album review: Snapped Ankles – ‘Forest Of Your Problems’: a terrifically twisted tonal masterclass
FROM introductory single “I Want My Minutes Back”, the elusively enigmatic Snapped Ankles have spliced musically immediate tracks with impossibly danceworthy drumbeats and equally provocative synth work alongside sprawling, often Krautrock-eking, delightful structures of wild, spontaneous abandon. Their third album, Forest Of Your Problems, expands their ever-growing sonic boundaries into abundantly fertile territory. As with …
Say Psych: Preview: PZYK 2020 16.05.2020
Following a nine-month gestation, the mysteriously monikered PZYK 2020 finally comes blinking into the daylight. The new incarnation – and ultimate realisation – of what was formerly known as Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, PZYK 2020 is a continuous, 16-hour immersive journey through sights and sounds of future psychedelia. What was previously a hedonistic marathon …
Say Psych: Live Review: Fuzz Club Eindhoven Day 2; Saturday 24.08.2019
After such an extraordinary day one, it’s hard to imagine that day two can be any better, but if the crowds who are down for the opening of the doors are anything to go by, expectation is high. Opening are Chilean four piece Vuelveteloca, who blend traditional South American rock with some heavy psychedelic influences …
Say Psych: News: Fuzz Club announce more bands for FCE2019
With an already enviable line up announced last month, Fuzz Club today announced five new additions to the bill for the Fuzz Club Eindhoven 2019 festival. They reveal that psych-poppers Froth, feral post-punk-outfit Snapped Ankles, Athens-based garage band Acid Baby Jesus, psych-rockers and Anton Newcombe collaborators Les Big Byrd as well as the London-based, genre-bending experimentalists Teeth Of The Sea. With …