These Arms are Snakes - Tail Swallower and Dove
@bubblegutz @stevesnere @chriscommon @i don’t know ryan’s insta but tell me and i’ll tag it etc ⠀ There’s something kind of bittersweet and sad when you listen to a band’s last album and despite any departure of previous sound or snobby feedback they got about this one, I really loved it and I look back on it with a little more fondness for each year that passes since they released it. They’d left Jade Tree for Suicide Squeeze here in Seattle and their sound was much fuller, bigger, and more produced but it never really lost the edge and bite of the earlier work. This was the first album where I felt like they could probably cross over and get people who weren’t just Myspace era scene kids excited about what they were doing and I was right...though it all came too late. They broke up and went on to focus on their other projects to different degrees of success. Brian is still very successful with both @russiancircles and @sumacbandofficial, @chriscommon is focusing on all forms of music production in El Paso, Ryan went off to work on Narrows, and I have no idea what Steve is up to but I’d be more than happy to interview him here if he sees this and wants to answer to TAAS questions for all of us! I hope that tonight has made you at least curious about this band and their incredible, but short, discography. If you already knew them, you aren’t surprised by my posts and if you you didn’t, I hope you’ve been curious enough to take a listen on a streaming service. I’ll close this by saying that there are few bands and artists that make such a big impact on you that you carry them with you throughout life despite timely trends. When you find one, hold onto it with both hands. TAAS will always be one of those for me. ⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/BwL5p9VA0eN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wx7qk41dye89