Search - Snowglobe :: Doing The Distance

Saddled with the responsibility of penning their own bio for their sophomore album, Doing the Distance , the members of Snowglobe, only too familiar with the tendency to drag *ss, came up with a brilliant plan. Cancel your appointments, go in that room, shut the door, and don t come out until it is written. They re still in there... but at least we have the bio. Snowglobe have been playing music together since high school. They are 5 Memphis boys with a penchant for the kind of rock that puts a subtle jangle in your step and a pop song in your heart. They released their debut album, Our Land Brains in 2002. Doing the Distance is Snowglobe s 2nd album. 3 years later and a world of experiences further on, the members of Snowglobe share with you, dear reader, their take on the music in their own words... The resonating feeling was that Doing The Distance was a gently grown-up Snowglobe. Just as the Pop we care about has grown up a little bit, and most likely so have you. We stress little because we don t want pop (or you) to grow up too much now do we? What do you get then? Steve Earle? Norah Jones? The Flaming Lips? Perhaps, but we re in no position to say. We are a bit behind on our adult contemporary pop . What does that mean anyway? Pop made by adults? We digress... point being, Doing The Distance climbs the mountain made by Mercury Rev (the band that you should have been listening to instead of The Flaming Lips.) There are pop bands that make it count, and then there are the rest. Snowglobe makes it count. Now on to the music: The album s second track Loaded Gun is not the kind of gem just tossed off or f*rted out, but rather it is calculated with care. Not that Snowglobe would toss off or f*rt out songs we realize that your attention span wears thin with all the clutter out there. We strive to battle Entertainment Attention Deficit Disorder on all fronts! Ah the fuzz guitar solo on Ms. June ... if only American bad*ss were a classif