Parlor Snakes

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NEW ALBUM: RECORDED AND MIXED IN NEW YORK BY MATT VERTA-RAY(HEAVY TRASH, JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION, DIRTBOMBS...) RELEASED ON MARCH 16, 2015 Parlor Snakes is a Parisian rock band. Eugénie Alquezar on vocals and organ, Peter K on guitar, Séverin on bass and Jim Yu on drums.
To their credit, two 7' vinyls « Shotguns » and « Tomorrow Never Comes », a first album « Let's Get Gone » released in 2012, but also around fifty concerts, a French tour with Jim Jones Revue, opening acts (Crocodiles, The Bellrays, Washington Dead Cats...), 5 tours in Italy, the music for the latest Lee Cooper TV ad campaign...
For their new album, the band chose to record at Matt Verta-Ray's NYHED Studio. Known for having recorded some of the best New York underground bands and for his work with Speedball Baby and Heavy Trash, Matt Verta Ray was an obvious choice.
Recorded in two weeks, entirely on analog, the album sounds organic and immediate. The songs move between dirty garage, punk blues, slow and sensual ballads. You can hear the blazing echoes of the New York bands previously recorded at NYHED. The Velvet Underground, The Ramones or even Suicide, with a bit of the Stones in there, those are the influences. Written in three months, the album captures the band's energy and synergy. A sense of urgency too. At times, Eugénie Alquezar's powerful voice seeks to tear your heart apart, at others, soft and sensual, it softens and soothes. The rhythm section, the band's solid backbone, leaves the guitar all the room it needs to bring squeals, fuzz and rock bursts. A love letter to explosive, bewitching and venomous rock'n'roll, to be discovered on March 16, 2015.