Snakadaktal - Ghost (I Oh
You/Liberation)
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| Snakadaktal - Ghost |
Just as the sun has dipped below
the house across the street and that early evening cool spreads across the
street, I press play on the single, 'Ghost', from Australian quintet Snakadaktal
and the world stops. It just stops for about 4 minutes. The uber-mellow keys
just wash over you until the dreamily delivered vocals speak softly in your ear,
complete with lip-smacks and quick breaths. The subtle guitars and lazy beats
serve only to remind you that this is actually a pop song and not some David
Lynchian dream sequence brought on by a long day at work and an out of date
quiche. The quietly implored refrain of "Ghost, Ghost" could be sung
by Bjork at her most delicate or a Scandinavian imp like Stina Nordenstam, making
it utterly seductive and wholly pure at the same time. 'Ghost' flies in the
face of almost everything else I'm being sent at the moment and makes a strong
case for the power of subtlety and sparseness in place of walls of noise and egos
turned up to 11. Snakadaktal describe their music as Dream Pop and on this
evidence I don't want to wake up. Like, ever.
More information: http://www.snakadaktal.com/
Live Dates:
28th July - Splendour in the
Grass, Byron Bay NSW
30th July - Festival Hall,
Melbourne (with Alt-J)
31st July - Hordern Pavilion,
Sydney NSW (with Alt-J)
2nd August - Spin Off Festival,
Adelaide SA
16th August - Flinders Social,
Townsville QLD
17th August - Kuranda
Amphitheatre QLD (with Bernard Fanning)