NEW EP RELEASE
The Snuts - Deep Diving
Scottish indie rock band The Snuts have released a new EP, ‘Deep Diving,’ ahead of their next studio album, ‘Millennials.’
The EP comprises four new songs that give fans a taste of what’s to come. The songs deal with aspiring to a better life, discovering beauty in the ordinary moments of life, and about finding love. Read a little deeper and you will also hear undertones of angst and suffocation that so many millennials seem to feel.
The songs use simple lyrical patterns, with fantastic and emotional musical hooks to draw the listener in. This combination works well together to capture the tension between dreaming and reality.
The title track, is about shutting out reality and indulging one’s “feels.” It has a grungy and melancholic ambiance, with Cochrane’s voice sounding deliberately stretched too thin and nasal in the verses. The music video features Cochrane sitting in what appears to be a kitchen singing. The shot is saturated in blue - a profile of millennial angst.
‘NPC,’ which stands for non-player character, is about sleeping through life, letting others make decisions for you, and the ease of being in a dream state. The choppy and fast melodic style and snappy bass line conveys an image of someone going through the motions of life - work, eat, Netflix, sleep. Repeat.
In ‘Dreams,’ Cochrane imagines asking someone out on a date and how magical their relationship would be. Unordained lyrics and a simple chorus-verse structure underscore one of the EP’s themes of finding beauty in the small things.
Final track, ‘Gloria,’ is about meeting someone at a Tescos and falling in love. Again, it delves into and celebrates the mundane moments of life and refocuses them as wondrous. But there’s also something unsettling in the lyrics: “box-set romance” and a “fairytale love.” Is the song a criticism of how generic modern life can be? Is it a metaphorical pin bursting the bubble of a fantasy romance? It’s not clear, but the music video provides some hints, following the life of a real couple and documenting the beauty in the everyday.
With ‘Deep Diving’, The Snuts seem to have built on the electronic and pop-rock feel in their previous work. Even with a more commercial sound, the band manages to maintain intimacy and it feels like Cochrane is sitting next to you at the office or standing next to you at Tescos singing and dreaming of a better life.
The band is originally from Scotland and is made up of former schoolmates, Jack Cochrane (vocals, guitar), Joe McGillveray (guitar), Callum ’29’ Wilson (bass), and Jordan ‘Joko’ Mackay (drums). ‘Deep Diving’ is released under their own label, Happy Artist Records.
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