{"product_id":"jericho-sirens","title":"Jericho Sirens","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eLoser edition black vinyl is now sold out. All future orders will receive CLEAR vinyl going forward. (3\/15\/18 - 10:45 am PST)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSwami John Reis and Rick Froberg have been making\rnoises together since high school. In 1986 it was the post-hardcore chime of\rPitchfork. In 1991 it was the sprawling, multi-faceted arrangements of Drive\rLike Jehu. In 1999 it was the lean, mean swagger of Hot Snakes. Reis and\rFroberg are responsible for some of the most turbulent rock and roll of their,\ror any, generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHot Snakes streamlined Jehu’s complex compositions\rand emerged as bona fide downstroke warlords. They made 3 studio albums of\rhigh-velocity, slash-your-face, piss-punk: 2000’s \u003ci\u003eAutomatic Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e,\r2002’s \u003ci\u003eSuicide Invoice\u003c\/i\u003e and 2004’s \u003ci\u003eAudit in Progress\u003c\/i\u003e. The\rband ceased activity in 2005 but reunited for a triumphant world tour in 2011,\rplanting the seeds for what has cum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eNow, after a 14-year hiatus from the studio, Hot\rSnakes have kicked down the door back into our lives with their new album, \u003ci\u003eJericho\rSirens\u003c\/i\u003e, due out March 16 from Sub Pop. Fresh, warm piss, bottled and sold\ras lube.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e“I considered stopping playing guitar on a social\rmedia poll after I completely mastered the instrument,\" Reis says. “But so\rmany people kept sending me letters and voicemail messages, asking me at the dry\rcleaners, or the butcher shop to bring back Hot Snakes. They were missing rock\rand roll music. I’ve always considered Hot Snakes to be more in the vein of the\rproto-Vog movement of the early ‘70s. But to these people, this is their rock ‘n’\rroll. I understand that. I totally understand people's desire to be controlled\rand humiliated by my guitar. Anyone can play the stupid guitar. What they want\ris for me to use it as a branding iron.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe new album blasts out of the speakers with the\rfurious “I Need a Doctor,” inspired by Froberg’s experience needing a doctor's\rnote in order to miss an important work function. “Yeah, I had to be quick on\rmy feet,\" says Rick. \"Luckily a friend had a stack of stationary from\rPlanned Parenthood and I used that to forge a note relieving me of my\robligation to go to a really lame Christmas party at a karaoke joint.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThroughout \u003ci\u003eJericho Sirens\u003c\/i\u003e, Froberg\rcommiserates with the frustration and torrential apathy that seems to be a\rfixture in our daily lives, while also reminding us that we have no fucking\rclue. “Songs like ‘Death Camp Fantasy’ and ‘Jericho Sirens’ are about that,” he\rsays. “No matter where you look, there’re always people saying the world’s\rabout to end. Every movie is a disaster movie. I’m super fascinated by it. It\ris hysterical, and it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. It snowballs, like\rfeedback, or my balls on the windshield.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eMusically, the album incorporates the most extreme\rfringes of the Hot Snakes sound (the vein-bulging, 78-second “Why Don’t It Sink\rIn?” the manic, Asian Blues on speed of “Having Another?”), while staying true\rto longstanding influences such as the Wipers, Dead Moon, Michael Jackson, and\rSuicide on propulsive tracks such as “Six Wave Hold-Down,” one of the first\rsongs written for the project during a Mummer Parade 2017 session in\rPhiladelphia. Other moments like the choruses of “Jericho Sirens” and\r“Psychoactive” nod to Status Quo and AC\/DC with Froberg admitting, “I still\rflip bird and ride my BMX on top of cop cars.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e“My muse was love. It sounds like panic and chaos,”\rReis says. “Restlessness and unease. That’s a sound that I would ask for. I\rwant that record. The inspiration would be simple, maybe even kind of\rstraightforward. Very early rock ‘n’ roll DNA with lots of rules. I would find\rsome note or rhythm in it that captivated me and I dwelled on it and bent it.\rThat's where I found dissonance. Bending and rubbing against each other\runcomfortably. Marinate and refine. A lot of the other Hot Snakes records\ralways had tension and release, but this one is mainly just tension.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eJericho Sirens\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded in short\rbursts over the past year, mostly in San Diego and Philadelphia with longtime\rbassist Gar Wood, Jason Kourkounis and Mario Rubalcaba, both of whom drummed on\rprior Hot Snakes releases but never on the same one. For Reis, reactivating his\rcreative partnership with Froberg was one of the most rewarding aspects of the\rprocess: “Our perspectives are similar. Our tastes are similar. He is my\rfamily. And what more is there to say? My favorite part of making this record\rwas hearing him find his voice and direction for this record. I came hard.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIn tandem with a full back catalog reissue series and the new album, Hot\rSnakes will return to the road in 2018 to incinerate the villages, and they’re\ralready looking ahead to more music. Says Gar Wood, “There're already 2 more\rrecords written and recorded. We wanted to come out with this one using the\rmore mainstream sounding stuff to give people a chance to catch up.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hot Snakes","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":53403369767279,"sku":"fej1788117299309","price":15.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":53403369800047,"sku":"mlf1788117299310","price":7.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cassette","offer_id":53403369832815,"sku":"max1788117299311","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital","offer_id":53403369865583,"sku":"ihh1788117299312","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/0169\/2271\/files\/jericho-sirens_1.jpg?v=1788117304","url":"https:\/\/www.brightcedar.shop\/products\/jericho-sirens","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}