Album Review

Snuff - 5-4-3-2-1, Perhaps?Snuff – 5-4-3-2-1, Perhaps?

Fat Wreck Chords veterans Snuff are back with their first studio album in over 9 years, the band went on hiatus back in 2005 and a few years later came out of hiatus to play a few shows over in Japan as well as supporting NOFX on a few shows across the UK but since then Snuff have been missing from the music scene but that is about to change with the release of “5-4-3-2-1, Perhaps?”

When it comes to Snuff albums you pretty much know what you are going to get and “5-4-3-2-1, Perhaps?” is no different as it is simply Snuff playing their brand of street punk, the vocals are still as gruff and raw sounding as ever and the riffs still feature the same amount of passion and energy as they did say 20 years ago, the only difference is that Snuff are now older and wiser, well the later statement is debatable.

The album opens up with ‘In The Stocks’ which starts with a mad flurry of clapping with Duncan Redmonds coming in moments later with his fast flowing vocals, instrumentally the song features exactly what you would expect from Snuff such as solid drum beats, fast chugging guitar riffs, bouncy basslines and the odd trombone piece popping up every now and again.

‘There Goes The Waltzinblack’ is easily one of the strongest sounding tracks on the album, it just sounds solid and flows ever so well, ‘Mumbo Jumbo’ is also a solid sounding track which is fast and furious sounding like old skool Rancid after a mass amount of speed. ‘Mary Poppins’ lets you see Snuff in a slight different light as they go down a more straight forward rock route full of guitar solos and Duncan Redmonds taking a break from his usual gruff sounding vocals to lay down more straight forward singing.

In total the album features 11 tracks and finishes with an acoustic version of the opening track ‘In The Stocks’ and it is so pleasing on the ears as Snuff slow the song down a bit and the stripped down instrumental work gives Oliver Stewart to shine on his trombone and Duncan Redmonds to fully concentrate on his vocals which sound better than ever here.

Snuff fans are easily going to be happy with ‘5-4-3-2-1, Perhaps?’ and will quickly snap it the album up, will Snuff be able to bring some extra fans to the table with this? I highly doubt it but when you have had a musical career as long as Snuff and have a fan base as dedicated as theirs things like this doesn’t really matter.

4/5

Review by Trigger

 Band Members

Duncan Redmonds
Loz Wong
Lee Batsford
Oliver Stewart
Lee Murphy
 Track Listing
1 In the Stocks
2 From Underneath the Ice
3 There Goes the Waltzinblack
4 Mumbo Jumbo
5 Rat Run
6 EFL
7 Bones for Company
8 Mary Poppins
9 I Blame the Parents
10 All Good Things / Cherubs Delight (Outro)
11 In the Stocks (Acoustic Version)
 Band Related Links
Snuff Facebook
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?