Snapped Ankles
Say Psych: News: Sour Grapes announce full line up for Meltchester
Sour Grapes bring their festival back to Manchester for a fourth time. Meltchester will take place on 17 May at Projekts Skatepark. BSM will be there to review all the action, and you should be too! Headliners this year are Snapped Ankles, the nine band bill features a mix of national grassroots bands and international …
Album Review: Snapped Ankles – Hard Times Furious Dancing: primal yet relentlessly danceable
With Hard Times Furious Dancing, Snapped Ankles take the chaos of modern life and distill it into something primal, absurd, and relentlessly danceable. The masked woodwose collective have always thrived on fusing industrial menace with kinetic energy, but here, they push their sound to new extremes, capturing the full-throttle intensity of their live shows. This …
Say Psych: ICYMI – The Sick Man of Europe release EP Moderate Air Quality & March tour with Snapped Ankles
Emerging from London’s underground music scene, The Sick Man Of Europe is distinctly monochrome in its outlook. Each note counts in this climate–economical but played with absolute precision and conviction. Propelled forward by machines and seeking solace in repetition. There are echoes of the post-punk and European art rock pioneers at the cusp of the …
Say Psych: News: Float Along Festival, Sheffield, announces 2024 line up
This September, Float Along Festival makes a welcome return to the streets of Sheffield. Festival goers can expect an encompassing mix of post-punk and electronic rock, as well as the best in indie and alternative. Float Along Festival takes place on 28 September and spans venues across the heart of the city centre, including iconic …
Bearded Theory – Did The Festival Live Up To The Hype?
Words and Pics by Andi Callen – All Rights Reserved Bearded Theory was touted by many to be THE line up of the summer, Glastonbury not included. And with a roll call including The Pretenders, Gary Numan, Public Service Broadcasting, Primal Scream, Echo & The Bunnymen, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Interpol, Gogl …
Live Review: Snapped Ankles – Huddersfield
Snapped Ankles’ first gig at Huddersfield’s Parish not only brought the group’s viscerally energetic heat to the cold West Yorkshire streets, but also featured literal usage of their environment in homage to their latest album (the sublimely melodic ‘Forest of Your Problems’); an enthralling audience-enveloped sermon during the title track of said album; as well …
100 albums of 2021 you shouldn’t miss, plus playlist
In a moment a folly, I (not me and my editorial team, or my writers, or indeed anyone) decided to make a playlist of the year. Not one of those in order ones, just a playlist of good records, written by the esteemed writers here at Backseat Mafia. I don’t know what possessed me to …
Live Review: Snapped Ankles / Mermaid Chunky – Crookes Social Club, Sheffield 23.10.2021, plus gallery
Words: PeteMo / Pictures: Nick Lowe Hailing from the basement & underground party scene of the east end of London, Snapped Ankles materialised like a strange & mythical apparition in front of an eager and discerning capacity crowd in the steel city, on a dank Saturday night. The venue, a working man’s club, dimly lit and heated to …
Say Psych: Live Review: Snapped Ankles @ Gorilla, Manchester 13.10.2021
Snapped Ankles were formed in 2011 out of one of east London’s warehouse communities and have continued their unimagined rise ever since. They defy convention at every turn from wearing pieces of forest to making their own instruments and with the success of their latest LP Forest of your Problems they have embarked on a …
Album review: Snapped Ankles – ‘Forest Of Your Problems’: a terrifically twisted tonal masterclass
FROM introductory single “I Want My Minutes Back”, the elusively enigmatic Snapped Ankles have spliced musically immediate tracks with impossibly danceworthy drumbeats and equally provocative synth work alongside sprawling, often Krautrock-eking, delightful structures of wild, spontaneous abandon. Their third album, Forest Of Your Problems, expands their ever-growing sonic boundaries into abundantly fertile territory. As with …