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I First Discovered This Album Last Year Along With They're Second Album Real To Real Cacophony And Fell In Love With Them. Here's My 1986 CD Of Life In A Day Presumably The First CD Release

Hey all,

Adam from Snailgun here - we're a three piece post punk/noise rock band influenced by 70's post punk, bands on SST/Dischord, and 90's noise rock.

We've got a debut album up on Bandcamp today! The album features aggressive and clangy guitars and pop sensibility. It meanders between short and blistering noise tracks ("SD", "Straight Ahead") and long guitar-driven odyssey jams ("Screamy Cat", "Shadow Operator"). The album was recorded by Jason Fuller at Goatsound Studios in Preston and by Max Ducker at Cellar Sessions in Coburg.

https://snailgunband.bandcamp.com/album/glass-walls

The first track "SD" was recently selected as one of PBS's Feature Tracks of the Week, and the track "Shadow Operator" was featured on the Triple J Unearthed's TOPS playlist.

Here's what Bad Batch magainze had to say about us: "This is Post-Punk Noise Rock as tactical weaponry... There's no wasted motion in snailgun's arsenal; every reverb-drenched chord and rhythmic click is engineered for maximum impact, creating an atmosphere of stylish menace that's both elegantly restrained and lethally effective. The band operates across borders of genre and fervour, tracking down the intersection of noir vestiges, New Wave nostalgia, and modern alienation with the methodical thoroughness of an elite unit, turning metropolitan menace and desolate souls into something dangerously engaging." - Stacey Ratti of Bad Batch magazine, issue #6

We're playing a big album launch show on 2 May at Cactus Room supported by No Hoper, Waxman, and Winternationale.

- Adam

Been trying to map out the core British post punk records from that 78–82 period chronologically and see how everything connects.

Once you start laying it out, it’s striking how dense and interconnected everything is—Manchester, Sheffield, London, different label ecosystems like Factory, Rough Trade, Postcard, 4AD, Mute… all overlapping but still very distinct.

Some of the records I’ve included:

Magazine — Real Life
Joy Division — An Ideal For Living, Unknown Pleasures, Closer, Love Will Tear Us Apart
Gang of Four — Entertainment!
The Slits — Cut
Public Image Ltd. — Metal Box
Siouxsie and the Banshees — The Scream, Juju
Wire — 154
The Fall — Dragnet, Grotesque
The Sound — Jeopardy
The Pop Group — Y
Cabaret Voltaire — Nag Nag Nag
Bauhaus — Bela Lugosi’s Dead
The Cure — Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography
Throbbing Gristle — D.O.A
The Normal — T.V.O.D. / Warm Leatherette
Echo & the Bunnymen — Crocodiles
New Order — Ceremony

Genuinely curious what people would add to this period that doesn’t usually get mentioned.

Also been thinking about doing a similar one focused on key industrial records.

I have been really enjoying going through some of the weirder and more obscure posts on here, so I thought I would throw this into the mix.

It is certainly quite unlike their successful later soul-disco-funk-pop stuff such as "Walk The Dinosaur" or "Shake Your Head" - all of which would have absolutely no place in this group... but this, this is something else....

Equally strangely perhaps is Don Was (one half of Was (Not Was)'s work with the late MC5 guitarist and political activist Wayne Kramer.

Hello Dad, I'm In Jail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noJo-bJ5V8A