Search - Crooked Fingers :: Bring On The Snakes

Less coherent album, but consistently great songs...

Careful Critic | Lexington | 12/29/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

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This second record seems unfairly judged as the weak sibling of the lineup, but there's not a single loser here, songwise. Maybe it's a little less sure-footed as a unit?, as Bachmann clearly has a lot of directions in mind.



Try "Doctors of Deliverance" to get a feel for this album's general tempo, or "Every Dull Moment" as the most finessed electric guitar in the entire catalog. All his different potentials are alluded to here, "Surrender is Treason" back toward the first album, "The Rotting Strip" toward the next Red Devil Dawn, and "Devil's Train" toward Bachmann's later solo record, To The Races. But "Here Comes the Snakes" might encapsulate the appeal of the entire body of work, both sad and stirring and so nimbly delicate.



Overall, this would be the album to play later at the party, when everyone is talked out and wants to just shut up and be transported into their own private reflections, while in the company of good friends."

Crooked again

askance | nashville, tennessee USA | 02/21/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"this album follows in the footsteps of the 1st crooked fingers album although meanders off the path after the 1st song(Which could have easily been lifted off of the 1st album). while populated by sad sack characters and pathetically addicted people this album offers hope at the end of the long night the debut album began. sparse,acoustic arrangements, female backup vocals, note the beautiful balladry of "sad love", the intricate appreggios, fingerpicking, the scratchy, cigarette beaten voice, the archers of loaf didn't break up, they just grew up.(no offense guys-i'd be 1st in line if you guys got back together. buy this if you have any sense."