The Snake Corps - Flesh On Flesh

From the ashes of Sad Lovers And Giants, Snake Corps was the brainchild of Tristan Garel-Funk and Nigel Pollard.  With the exit of Pollard, Marc Lewis was recruited to do vocals.  Though infused throughout with atmospheric and brooding guitar, Snake Corp ended up having a harder-edged post-punk sound than others in the genre. The more prominent guitar gives Flesh On Flesh a sound that is often reminiscent of mid-period Siouxsie And The Banshees but always remains its own thing. This album is everything I liked about Sad Lovers And Giants with more guitar, which lends it a tougher sound most of the time. Though popular in continental Europe, Snake Corps never found much of an audience in their home U.K. or in the United States.  That's a shame because Snake Corps are one of those rare groups that were remarkably consistent. The songs as a whole are catchy and wonderfully rhythmic with soaring, swirling guitars. 

The Snake Corps – Spice

If you’ve been following this wee blog for a while then you’ll know that Snake Corps are one of the bands that we all like. So rather than repeating myself whilst singing their praises I’m just going to slip this lil beauty in between the sheets for your perusal and education at a time that suits you. Lie back and enjoy.

The Snake Corps - 3x12'' Singles Vol.2

It was always bound to happen that the interweb would provide more from The Snake Corps. Something of this magnitude should be celebrated, but not drip fed. With that in mind I have not one, not two, but three (duh!) splendid gifts for you all neatly tucked up in one package. Go On, enjoy yourselves.

Smother Earth

With "Smother Earth" Snake Corps had everything in its favour to succeed, except luck. It is a pity that training like this, of a certain quality, not only hasn’t enjoyed success but is not even being claimed in our days by his musical generation colleagues. Time may end up solving this injustice and the group someday get the recognition deserved. Musically, the album has many virtues; neat and careful production, ideal to wrap up certain compositions of pop with dark tones and guitars that refer to formations such as The Church or the first The Cult, addictive refrains, epic in its proper measure, instrumental themes of great beauty, homogeneity, solidity (there are not great differences of quality throughout all the minutes of the disc) and also possible singles of great potential success (Calling You or Come the Glorious Days would be two good examples).

Victory Parade, Testament & Some Other Time

The last remaining releases that live in my Snake Corps folder are the two 12” singles Victory Parade and Testament along with the CDS Some Other Time. Victory Parade adds a non-album track “Painted Ocean” for the completest collector out there while the Testament single not only brings an extended version of “Testament” but two further non-album tracks “Hit The Cat” and “Goodbye Forever”. The last of this quick trio is the four track CD EP Some Other Time. The EP features two non-album tracks “Silence” and “Something’s Wrong” along with a Bellydance Mix of “Ill Wind”.