Eleni Mandell - Snakebite

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Music Review: Snakebitten, No Longer Shy
Rating: 5 Stars

Disc opener "Dreamboat" is as slow and languorous as one would expect based on the title, but listeners beware, "there's trouble below" as the disc segues into the frenetic claustrophobic "Pirate Song" with the narrator, one of the "Dreamboat" lovers, sounding as if she's singing from her watery grave. A couple tracks later we get one of the brightest songs, sonically at least, that Mandell has written with "I Believe In Spring" with the lap steel and tambourine providing the correct amount of light contrasting with the dark and dreary lyrics to maintain the proper chiaroscuro. The title track with its images of absence and suffocation is as frenetic as "Pirate Song" with tambourine shakes to simulate a snake's rattle before flowing into the lazy and lilting "Christine," perhaps sung for "Dreamboat"'s deceased woman. "Digging A Hole" sounds like a modern sea shanty while "Silverlake Babies," with its seemingly positive tone, brings some ambiguity to the disc's story with the reference to postmodernist apocalyptic author "Lullaby Phillip K. Dick." Eleni Mandell creates music that is truly unique as her lyrics paint a dark and dreary story throughout the course of the album while her vocal wraps perfectly around each syllable executing each murder in the most calculated fashion.

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