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...) 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 Lee Cooper's latest TV ad campaign... For their new album, the band chose to record at Matt Verta-Ray's NYHED Studio. Known for recording some of the best underground New York bands and for his background with Speedball Baby and Heavy Trash, Matt Verta Ray was an obvious choice. Recorded in two weeks, entirely analog, the album sounds organic and immediate. The songs range from gritty garage to blues punk, slow and sensual ballads. One can hear the flamboyant echoes of New York bands previously recorded at NYHED. The Velvet Underground, The Ramones, or even Suicide, with a bit of the Stones thrown in, 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 at your heart; at others, soft and sensual, it calms and soothes. The rhythm section, the solid backbone of the band, allows the guitar full scope to provide squeals, fuzz, and rock bursts. A love letter to explosive, captivating, and venomous rock'n'roll, to be discovered on March 16, 2015.