Snakehips “Month of Sundays”

On the new Snakehips offering, Harrison’s flare for the pop-tinged, tight, and no-frills rock number, such as “Time to Cry,” or “Walk Away” is executed with such ease; it surpasses its initial influences. Yet, it’s the mature confidence in his softer, folk-based songs that demands attention. The aching “Love Poison” hosts an ingenious, scant electric guitar line that drops in a bed of church-like keyboards, with Harrison’s near-country, deadpan vocal delivery of lines like, “Though I may wonder more, I know the color of my dreams,” is near perfect.

The following “When I’m Blue,” accompanied with Jonathan Kirkscey’s cello and Doug Easley’s subtle pedal steel, provides a brilliant ambiance of melancholy and beauty. “When I Was Your Guy,” the record’s closer, employs a chugging acoustic guitar and synthesized strings, pointing to a new musical direction that Harrison has toyed with in the past.

Month of Sundays is the kind of record that one might hope that Alex Chilton still has in him, or that Paul Westerberg could be bothered to put together. And this is what I mean by “surpassing” influences, Mark Harrison, with his new Snakehips release, has quietly progressed with this record of varied pop nuggets. Mark Shikuma / North Coast Journal, January 2010

Track listing

1. Walk Away
2. Come On
3. Time To Cry
4. Sheena
5. Wonderland
6. Killing Floor
7. Love Poison
8. When I’m Blue
9. Brand New
10. When I Was Your Guy

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