LISTEN: Snack Family - No Reason | The Quietus

LISTEN: Snack Family – No Reason

Creepy taster from upcoming EP, Pokie Eye

London trio Snack Family are gearing up for their second EP of the year. They’re following Belly with Pokie Eye, out on December 8 via singer Andrew Plummer’s limited NOISE label, and they’ve kindly given us an appetite-whetting morsel in the shape of ‘No Reason’, which lines up alongside two other new tracks and a cover of Captain Beefheart’s ‘Plastic Factory’ – listen above. It’s one of the few tracks we’ve heard recently that has actually deserved the wrung-out adjective "Lynchian", as they describe it: tremolo guitar hung heavy with foreboding underpins Plummer’s sung-spoken intonations, while in the background the indistinct ambience of Mule Variations-era Tom Waits clanks, pocked, at one point, by a fearsome drum roll.

You can pre-order the EP, out on a strictly limited run of 150 hand-numbered CDs and download, here, and make sure you head to the launch party for the record, at the Total Refreshment Centre in Dalston on December 6.

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