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Snails and The Midnight Stroll Reviewed

Snails and The Midnight Stroll Reviewed

Snails – Dorul

The language of music is universal, sure. The lyrics featured in a pop song aren’t vital, provided that the singer is able to make audiences understand what they mean through the phrasing of their voice. These are the reasons why non-English sung tunes used to routinely become hits all over the world. You don’t need to explain an emotion, and music, more than just about anything else, can deliver and switch these on and off. 

However, this doesn’t mean that the world is not full of a colossal number of different, original sounds. It also doesn’t mean, as some music critics will have you believe, that all of the possible combinations have been used up. Pop music is a series of codes of such complexity that they’ll never run out. That’s precisely why we keep coming back to it, expecting to always receive something new and surprising. 

Snails, a long-running guitar-pop band from Moldavia, are still looking for new ways of putting old sounds together. On “Dorul” (a Romanian word that translates precisely to “longing) the band brings its love of 60s rock forward and attempts to have it find common ground with traditional folklore elements. It’s a bold undertaking, and the majority of artists who try to glue these two elements up fail. But Snails remain masters of cool in the East-European underground. The band has enough good taste, and plenty of tunes under its belt to make this work. 


The Midnight Stroll – It Aint Worth A Dream

Frank Zappa, bandleader and writer of dad jokes delivered as commentary on the state of the culture, once claimed that punk-rock bands were made up of people off the streets. Clearly, what Mr. Zappa, as well as the other fans of jazz and classical music who might be attending the Mothers of Invention’s shows, were afraid of was that their jobs as professional musicians would become fewer. 

But on a more profound level, some of the boring virtuosos might just have feared that audiences would realise just how unimportant musical knowledge and technique is most of the time when playing rock n’ roll. It certainly can’t help that the song idea is uninspired. It won’t make lyrics half-baked joke lyrics sound any funnier. People might start demanding less than 10 minutes of songs featuring extended drum solos. 

The Midnight Stroll, with a sound that is not nostalgia-driven in any way, capture the excitement of early punk music on “It Aint Worth A Dream.” These are simple ideas that capture the listener’s imagination from the very first moment. Part of this is because, from the feedback-drenched riff that makes up the intro to the lead singing, the playing is driven by anger, by real emotion. You won’t be able to get that out of a book of scales, and Zappa knew it. The people off the streets often have better ideas than the pros. 

Snails - Dorul

8.5

The Midnight Stroll - It Aint Worth A Dream

8.5

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About author

Eduard Banulescu is a writer, blogger, and musician. As a content writer, Eduard has contributed to numerous websites and publications, including FootballCoin, Play2Earn, BeIN Crypto, Business2Community, NapoliSerieA, Extra Time Talk, Nitrogen Sports, Bavarian FootballWorks, etc. He has written a book about Nirvana, hosts a music podcasts, and writes weekly content about some of the best, new and old, alternative musicians. Eduard also runs and acts as editor-in-chief of the alternative rock music website www.alt77.com. Mr. Banulescu is also a musician, having played and recorded in various bands and as a solo artist.
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