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SThis is a great slithery and sinewy release from the Hollywood sleaze merchants. It's the third album from Snew (not so snew then) and they're in no hurry to reinvent the wheel. Guitarist Andy Lux mugs AC/DC and Rose Tattoo in broad daylight for a few bluesy licks.
They punch out with one fist of rock and one fist of roll. Don Vito's vocals might be marmite for some but he's got bags of attitude and squeaks more coolly than a new leather jacket. He wraps his slippery tongue round some eccentric lyrics, such as on "Electrolux", which is indeed a song about the power of the Hoover.
The rest I'll leave to your imagination. Their left field nature helps reshape the usual rock clichés.
"Release The Beast" comes out of the traps all hip thrusts and booty shaking. Even better is the super-catchy "I Got A Rocket", which dances like the Stooges. "Tearing Up The City", "Clever Girl" and the title track are all snarly, shade wearingly cool rockers that, while sticking to a similar formula, have enough variation in the arrangements to keep things interesting and "All Over You" adds some mouth organ and has a Faces feel to it.
Produced by Owsinski, whose credits include Elvis, Hendrix and Neil Young, and engineered by Ken Scott, whose CV boasts The Beatles, David Bowie and Supertramp, they add some welcome lip gloss to the sound.
It needs a little living with before its dirt gets under your fingernails, but once it does, it's an easy album to return to and if you're looking for some loose and limber rock 'n' roll, then this is your snew best friend.
PowerPoints: 8
November issue 2012
Wenn es ein Gerne gibt, das einfach reinläuft, dann ist es vernünftig gemachter Sleaze Metal, und genau so schnell nervt der auch wenn er eben nicht gescheit gebastelt ist.
Genau das ist aber hier der Fall, die vier Herren von Snew pfeffern auch auf ihrem dritten Album zehn astreine Rocker in die Menge, die sofort zünden und ins Tanzbein fahren. Wie stets gibt's auch hier keinen Originalitäts-Nobelpreis zu gewinnen, aber das diktiert nun mal das Metier. Aber innerhalb der klar gesteckten Grenzpfähle langen Snew ordentlich hin - dreckige Riffs, Monster-Hooks und absolut passender Gesang von Shouter und Cheffe Curtis Don Vito (Schwippschwager von Corleone).
In einer Arena, in der sich Acts wie Hardcore Superstar erfolgreich tummeln, können auch Snew somit durchaus respektabel mitmischen. Gekonnt in Szene gesetzt wird das Geschehen von Produzent Ken Scott, der immerhin Scheiben wie das Weiße Album der Beatles, David Bowies Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars und Crime Of The Century von Supertramp (na ja letzteres verzeihen wir ihm mal, trotz des Gejaules auf Ultraschall-Niveau) auf seinem Lebenslauf stehen hat. Quadratisch, praktisch, rockt. Yo Mähn.
October 7 2012
The third full-length release from Snew. If you love all those hard rockin' hair bands from the 1980s...LISTEN UP.
Of all the bands treading in this genre, the guys in Snew are probably the best. These four guys play like holy hell...they've got a great image...and their songs are totally bitchin'. The band is comprised of Andy Lux (guitar), Curtis Don Vito (vocals), Mark Ohrenberger (drums), and Willie Basse (bass).
What's It To Ya is chock full of punchy hooky loud pop/rock played with balls and conviction. Curtis has the perfect voice for this style of music...throwing in plenty of yowls and howls to add extra personality to the tunes. This album is one great big fall of rock n roll FUN. How could you not love a band with a song called "Electrolux"...? Other killer cuts include "Release The Beast," "Pull My Stinger," "Unglued," and "All Over You." Hard rockin' pop at it's best... Top pick.
5/5
November 1 2012
Na, die Hollywood-Truppe SNEW lässt nicht locker. 1995 gegründet, haben sich die Jungs durch ihre bisherigen beiden Veröffentlichungen und Konzerte schon einen Namen in Kalifornien gemacht. Nun hat die Truppe mit 'What´s It To Ya' ihren dritten Longplayer eingespielt und wie immer dürfte auch diese Veröffentlichung ein gefundenes Fressen für alle Hardrocker, die etwas mit AC/DC, KISS, MOTÖRHEAD und weiteren 80er-Ikonen anfangen können, sein.
Der knackige Opener 'Release The Beast' drückt auf's Tempo und rockt heftigst nach vorne. Die beiden folgenden Kick-Ass-Rocker 'I Got A Rocket' und 'Pull My Stinger' erinnern an RHINO BUCKET und weitere gute sleazige AC/DC-Clone. Auch der Rest auf diesem Album kann mit stampfenden Nummern überzeugen. Wobei ganz besonders der schön riffige Titeltrack und abschließend fetzige 'All Over You' besonders verführerisch zum Anlage aufdrehen sind.
Freunde des sleazigen Hardrocks kommen an dem neuen Werk von SNEW nicht vorbei. Arschtreter-Hooklines treffen auf gute Ohrwurm-Refrains. Fazit: perfekt für´s Auto!
Ocotber 10 2012
Released at the tail end of the Summer, 'What's It To Ya' is the third album from Snew, following on from the band's 2008 debut, 'Snew You', and its follow-up, 'We Do What We Want', which arrived a couple of years later. Keeping with that whole every-other-year release cycle, this new album offers little new in the world of Snew but, if you're already familiar with the band, you'll realise that that doesn't matter in the slightest.
'Release The Beast' - what a great title for an album opener! - powers out of the stereo and into the auditory canal in a blur of bass, screams and timeless barroom boogie. There are a couple of heavyweights behind the knob-twiddling of this album - Bobby Owsinski (Elvis, Hendrix, Neil Young) producing, Ken Scott (The Beatles, Bowie, Supertramp) in charge of the mix - and they have captured Snew's retrofied, classic rock sound perfectly.
It's that sound, walking a well-worn path to AC/DCville, that blesses and curses Snew in equal measure: doubters will just point out that they've heard it all before, and they'd probably be right, but the music fans with a modicum of fun still left in their battered, excitement-ravaged bodies will find plenty here to slap a hefty, riff-happy smile across their faces.
'I Got A Rocket' almost perfects that 'DC/Airbourne double entendre lyrical fornication, before the record's lead track, 'Pull My Stinger', steals its glory as the album's money shot - just under four minutes of grin-inducing rock 'n' roll quality that invokes the spirit of Tom Keifer's troubled vocal chords.
Frontman Curtis Don Vito comes into his own on 'Electrolux', the band almost calming things down into a Quireboys-like rock 'n' roll hipshaker on 'Clever Girl', before 'Unglued' struts on and takes the acclaim as the album's killer kut: a big, fat Seventies riff that is equal parts classic Aerosmith/Cheap Trick holding court majestically over its nine other recorded bruthas and sistas.
It might come as a bit of a surprise to some to acknowledge that Don Vito and band (joined for album number three by former Black Sheep frontman Willie Basse on...errr....bass) sound at their best on a slower number, but it's true - 'Bad Words' might not win any awards for originality, but it presses every button and impresses in a way that you might not think possible. The album's title track - opening in subtle fashion before breaking out into a mash-up of '70s glam stomp and buzzsaw boogie - almost closes the show, but there's still time for Snew to get 'All Over You', in a sweaty mess of harmonica, three chords and the timeless strains of classic hard rock.
Sure, Snew offer little new in the grand scheme of rock 'n' roll things, but little does it matter. Something borrowed, something blues, etc, etc. With the news that Rhino Bucket are to tour an album from over two decades ago, an album mainly remembered as being by a cool bunch of AC/DC copycats, playing it in its entirety, then all you need worry about when it comes to Snew is how to get a hold of this album and how you can find the time to get down and get with it. This is good time hard rock, sleazing and pleasing, that I bet is the soundtrack to a fucking fun night out.
Monday, 17 December 2012 04:00
What is rockin' and rollin' over the great sea to our house? It's the american hard rock band Snew…so it's time for a review.
The four-piece from Hollywood/California is celebrating this genre with high class technique from the first tune on their third longplayer "What's it to Ya". The mangy voice of Curtis DonVito sets it apart from the amount of AC/DC clone bands. Like a Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth of Rock'n Roll he enriches the ten songs with a smokey note. The riffs of their australian idols are not copied anymore like for example on their debut "Snew You". With the title track the guys hot up every party.
On "Release the Beast" the tempo is increase enormous and with "I got a Rocket" all party dreams come true. The boys from the west coast prove a lot of humor with the groovin' track "Electrolux"… I think with this they wrote the first rock'n roll song about a vacuum cleaner. But there is also space for some quiet moments on the album cause "Bad Words" is affected by slow tempo and thoughtful lyrics. The ladies of the world are valued discreet with "Clever Girl" but with "Tearing up your City" I'm (theoretical) sitting on my bike again at full throttle. "All over You" is hitting my visor in confederate style and with "Unglued" I am ending my trip with some whiskeys in a bar. For "Pull my Stinger" I am only writing this: Eat more honey…that's very healthful ! To stimulate your appetite watch the approbiate video.
Ready is the review of Snew…and all that comes in rhymes is good.
8/10
October 9 2012
Die Hollywood-Abgesandten SNEW haben sich seit ihrem letzten Scheibchen »We Do What We Want« prominent verstärkt: BLACK SHEEP-Mann Willie Basse ist bei der Combo als Bassist eingestiegen und hat kein Interesse gezeigt, SNEW in die Richtung seiner bisherigen Aktivitäten "abzudrehen", sondern gleich- und wechselstromt hier hervorragend mit. Denn: Bei SNEW ist auf dem Neuling »What's It To Ya« mehr denn je AC/DC-lastige Mucke angesagt, die vielleicht noch mit einer THUNDERHEAD'schen Prise Heavy Rock durchsetzt ist.
Auf alle Fälle schaffen es SNEW, knackiger als noch auf dem Vorgänger zur Sache zu gehen, so daß heuer alle Knochen klappern, wenn SNEW in die Saiten greifen, so daß man nun eine uneingeschränkte Empfehlung für die Combo aussprechen kann.
October 8 2012
American's hard-rockers released their third album. Obviously Bobby Owsinski was the producer of album and Ken Scott occupied with the recording and the mixing. Well, so good persons could occupy only the good music.
SNEW again proved that Hard Rock still lives and the music is able to pretty well kick ass of listeners. Anyway, the band belongs to young teams (with the practice) but the guys show us sharp Hard Rock from 80th years. They don't need to play Death Metal to create predatory music. Their arrangements are very hard, heavy and very rhythmical as well as I have impression that they play yet more in style of AC/DC than at the previous albums. It is audible in sound of the vocal and in the way of singing particularly. Although the instrumental arrangements also associated to AC/DC - the characteristic riffs, the sharp solos, the hard pullings in style of Blues-Rock and the specific melodies.
The feature differentiating SNEW from AC/AC is the Hammond organs in the background. Moreover the work "Bad Words" is balladic song in Hard Rock style. And therefore SNEW also has own ideas for creating of Hard Rock.
"What's It To You" is as the retrospective album with the sharp, dynamic and very catchy pieces.
October 14 2012
Desde los Estados Unidos, concretamente Los Angeles, nos llega una enérgica propuesta de Hard Rock con tintes clásicos y sonido fresco de la mano de SNEW y lo que ya es su tercer álbum, que lleva el título de "What's It To Ya". Entre sus influencias destacan a bandas como MOTÖRHEAD, ALICE COOPER, RAMONES, KISS, MC5 y AC/DC, siendo estos últimos los que más mella han hecho en el sonido del grupo, por lo que puedes esperarte un disco repleto de ritmos electrizantes y mucho estilo. Todo ello con una magnífica producción llevada a cabo por Bobby Owsinski y grabado por el legendario Ken Scott. El resultado es un disco de Hard Rock elegante, potente, con mucho ritmo y talento.
Una de las cosas que más llaman la atención de este trabajo es la capacidad que tiene la banda para componer temas a la vieja usanza, con un feeling similar al que consiguen algunos de los grandes nombres citados anteriormente entre sus influencias. A la vez hay que tener en cuenta que el sonido es francamente bueno, incluso con un toque de frescura, lo que hace que el acabado tenga una gran calidad y sirva para que los temas lleguen a su máximo esplendor. Pero no es solo una cuestión técnica o de añoranza lo que hace que "Whta's It To Ya" sea un buen trabajo, es sobretodo el ritmo y lo contagioso de los temas lo que hace de este tercer disco de SNEW una referencia obligada dentro del Hard Rock.
Probablemente todavía les falta un poco para llegar a la altura de grupos como KISS, AC/DC o MOTÖRHEAD, pero sin duda van por el buen camino como demuestra este disco. Una colección de diez temas que no dejarán indiferente a nadie que le guste el Rock, y que si los escuchas a todo volumen te engancharán.
8/10
October 15 2012
My favourite LA sleaze rockers kindly sent me their third album What's It To Ya a while back. New album, new bass player (Willie Basse - he of Black Sheep fame), same sense of fun, and as always high quality, belting, good-time rock 'n' roll. Long time producer Bobby Owsinski remains at the helm, with the legendary Ken Scott (The Beatles, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, and many, many more) recording and mixing.
I know I've said it before, but Curtis Don Vito does sound scarily like Brian Johnson, and there's more than a hint of AC/DC's influence in Snew's style. Never a bad thing, especially when this foursome pull it off so well. Title track What's It To Ya has a bit of a country flair thrown in, would you believe, but very much tongue in cheek I think. It's good fun anyway, and the blues harmonica asides in otherwise fast-paced heavy rocker All Over You is a great touch. Innuendo-filled sleaze remains very much on the agenda with the likes of I Got A Rocket and Pull My Stinger, and Electrolux has precisely nothing to do with spring-cleaning.
Snew are always good value, always up for a good time, and they play music that you will want to listen to again and again. They're doing it all themselves, and have built up quite a reputation along the way. If you haven't come across them yet do yourself a favour, and give Snew a listen.
October 19 2012