MUSIC! 'II' by Snailface

WOWIE ZOWIE Yowie! This is the band I like. A friend in the U.S.A. tipped me towards the link to obtain this recording at no cost. Apparently, this is a band that once a year makes a recording for a month. This is no throw away! First off, the music is a theme of the YETI! Some people of my readership may recall the Swedish Yeti legend involving Leif Pettersson's movie which I remember reading of which in school. However, Snailface this band is approaching the legendary Yeti with an amazing musical tribute! Awesome!

Track one is 'Yowie Wants a Piece', and it's so many good things at once I may explode. The singer's voice is reminiscent of the great 70's bands like BTO or maybe a baritone Grand Funk. The music is distinctively amazing. The guitars are like progressively Eagles or a more bluesy and slower Iron Maiden. Drumming is out of the country! Wow. Song one is so amazing that the rest of the album could have been a lot of Yeti howls and I'd still think this is a classic.

Track two is 'The Almasty (Kelermes Mirror)' the riff starts like a Queens of the Stoneate and then the vocals are like Kyuss. Sometimes it's very Josh Homme (a good thing!) They swirl around in the mix with nice Billy Gibbons flourishes accompanying. There a few tracks of a sinister sounding person reading things about the Yeti and their flock of Zemu and great treasures.

Musically it's got some Black Sabbath, maybe some Jane's Addiction even in some times, all in all though it becomes its own accompanyment and is not deriving from any one thing. 'Momo, the Missouri Monster' is very classic American rock with hints of Thin Lizzy and maybe some Whitesnake (NOT the Steve Vai recording of Whitesnake: that is not very good!) but there's a lot of grooving. Like its subject matter, 'Snailface II' is mysterious, out of time, yet completely large and animalistic. The close is VERY ZZ Top, never a bad thing in this person's estimate, with more nods to Phil Lynott, the greatest African American Irish bass player of all time.

There are many recordings for far more people and money that are nowhere close to this amazing. I have been listening to this non-stop all day and would suggest you do the same thing. It is rare I put links to the musical groups I cover but go download this right now!!! Here cause you ain't heard nothing Yeti!!!!