“The blissfully slacked-out La Snacks would have found good company in the mid-’90s sandwiched on a Pavement/Archers of Loaf bill, but even Pavement rarely wrote songs as simultaneously snarky and reverent as “Emo Kind of Love.”
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Punk Planet
La Snacks’ music resembles a home improvement project. It sounds like amateurs performed the work in a garage on the weekend; it feels like the band abruptly wrote and recorded it, but it works. Joe Deshotel frequently plays one-string leads and picks out simple riffs. With his bass, Trae Branham keeps the band in key. Drummer Jamey Matte helps the band stay loose. Robert Segovia’s frequently clever lyrics effectively convey small-town stir-craziness. "Emo Kind of Love" mockingly empathizes with emo kids, and "Charlie’s Dead" is an irreverent, solipsistic ode. Because the band clearly enjoys performing, listening is a pleasure. (JM)
Austin Sound
Shooting originally out Beaumont, La Snacks rock Pavement inspired licks against the smart, cynical lyrics of frontman Robert Segovia. In fact, if local standouts Peel work the unrestrained, distortion-fed side of Pavement’s catalogue, La Snacks drives at the seminal Nineties act from the opposite angle. The quartet’s 2005 debut, Brown, Orange, Black, and Gray, offers tight, polished guitar tones, and Segovia spits odes so rife with barb’s like “Cause we’re all music snobs, trying to get someone involved, in our latest B-side blues” (from “Emo Kind of Love”) that even irony doesn’t capture the spite.
Partyends.com
I only know about Port Arthur Texas because of UGK and La Snacks. Both important acts, formed in Port Arthur who relocated and now do a lot for the new cities lucky enough to be called their homes- Houston and Austin respectively. The new La Snacks Album Brown, Orange, Black, Gray is engaging and addictive. The lyrics teeter on nursery rhyme fundamentals and then go into the lyrical realm that I’m perhaps a sucker for most– witty pop culture and irony. The balance of both is masterful.
Musically the group draws on another Austin act, Single Frame. SF front-man and artist extraordinaire Adreon Henry clearly validates the up-and-coming La Snacks by designing the cover art for the Cash Cow Records release.
One of several standout tracks on the Album is Emo Kind of Love which contains the line that I can’t get out of my head and can’t stop telling friends and strangers alike about: “you can’t always get/ what you want/ but you can always buy new cds!” As much as the cultural significance of Dashboard Confessional playing the ending credits song for Spiderman 2 deserves to be sent up by rock music- La Snacks understands that there are bigger foreign policy issues that rock music is obliged to address. Album opener Are We in Danger is angular and intense in its message about America and global relations. Of course, there is the ever-present La Snacks cleverness: while addressing concern of third-world starvation; the song complains of getting a “tummy ache” from popping too many pills. This is the track that could best be shouted along with live, soaking in sweat.
The Onion "Sloppy Smart Asses" Which Kind of hits the Nail on the Head
The Chronicle "Slow Burn in Minor Key" Which sounds like me when I am working out
Ultra8201 "One of Austin’s most underrated acts" Which is really nice
Just a quick note to let you know we're playing Mohawk next Tuesday (May 6) with Interstates and Foxhole. They are coming all the way from Kentucky, so I'm sure they'd love to see some friendly faces!
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La Snacks in '08? I forgot to write you in this year. My bad... If it weren't for the day job, I'd be at those day shows, but I guess I can wait 'til April. Maybe.
Come see us TONIGHT at EMO'S in Austin!!
We're on the World By Storm Tour with Aiden and others.
Hope you come check it out!
Emo's (inside)
603 Red River
Austin, TX 78701
doors @ 7pm
Also, our debut album "There Came A Lion" just hit store shelves a few weeks ago and is also available on iTunes for just $7.99!
-Ivoryline
