Spiral by sknob
Spiral by sknob
Review by @ashnoodle
Sknob’s Spiral album is a set of cleanly produced catchy alt pop songs with a touch of dark mood and humour, accompanied by Sknob’s distinctive rising and falling vocals.
Sknob’s notes on the album are “Down the drain.” – possibly a perspective on the state of the world, but the delivery of the songs is almost upbeat singalong and poppy in many tracks – which doesn’t detract from the stress of the world, but ends up making me feel less depressed about it, and in some ways hopeful. Themes include social media obsession and celebrity, the rise of the right, conflict out of control, and the gift of time.
My fave tracks on the album that catch this contrast of dark mood, and pop catchiness well are Unreal; It’s cool to be a nazi now*; Spiral; I remember; and Time.
It feels like the songs could be the soundtrack of an alternative dark musical comedy, with Sknob wandering around a crumbling city encouraging everyone to singalong while he picks out the tunes on his guitar.
*It’s obviously ironic. We know it’s not cool to be a nazi.
