SNOUT
Circle High and Wide - Au-go-go

Review by Mark Fraser

ALBUM number three from the Melbourne trio that's been lost in time, and in doing so, has picked the best elements of yesteryear's garage guitar pop and juggled them into a melting pot of joyous, sometimes raucous and often surprising slices of sound.

THE classic retro 60s guitar pop of the title track is where you know Snout dwell, but what unfolds as the album unravels its charms, is a myriad of side trips that bounce back and forth from the likes of the jump-injected, emphatic moods and screams of Random Number Generator to the softer, coaxing, raw beauty and melodious bliss of the forthcoming single Got Sold On Heaven.

THE soft threading of School Dux winds into the familiar quirkiness and explosions of Hey Hey Hey, while Tomorrow We Sing opts for a more mondo-bizarro approach with its sound-scaping and scourging. The whimsical play of Down Without A Sound is hard to resist, and the almost somniferous nonchalance of 99.9 takes it out ever so laxadasically.. with just a tail end of business card to kick it all home.

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