THE DARTS - Snake Oil - LP - Purple Vinyl [APR 14]

LP - Limited Edition Purple Vinyl. 

All female garage punk band return with their fullest sound yet. Members from The Love Me Nots. At last! The Darts return from their Bat Cave Covid lair, with Snake Oil by far their best album to date. The Darts formed in 2016 with the goal of getting some solid female musicians together to make garage punk rock and roll noise, see the world, and basically have a super-fun slumber party every night. They are now hands down one of the best garage bands in the world.

This is a much fuller sound than any Darts disc before, courtesy of their longtime collaborator Bob Hoag (FB Rec) and some remote control coproduction wizardry from Jello Biafra himself. Featuring the return of Nicole Laurnne on vocals / Farfisa and Hammond organ, Christina Nunez on bass / vocals, and Meliza Jackson on guitars / vocals, Snake Oil is the debut of new drummer Mary Rose Gonzales. The result? It comes out smoking as if the band had been in a pressure cooker throughout the pandemic. Expect the wider sound and sparkle of Laurnne and Nunez’s previous band, The Love Me Nots (which was also recorded by the brilliant Bob Hoag), but with way more raunch and Laurnne’s voice has never sounded better. Snake Oil is for fans of agile, sultry vocals and beefy, vintage rhythm sections paired with razor-tone guitars. This Snake Oil was concocted to remedy the most unaffected and stiff-legged garage rockers out there!  

Tracklist:

1. Snake Oil
2. Spy Girl
3. Love Tsunami
4. Under The Gun
5. Pink Slip
6. Love Song
7. You Just Love Yourself
8. Underground
9. Intersex
10. Donne-Moi Tout
11. Black Eyes
12. Shit Show
13. Bring It Back