Name: Hard-Wired
Brand: Snails

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375 Media

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Tangerine Vinyl

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Release date

2020-10-09

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142696

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5024545884814

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Snails

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Glass Modern

Genre EU

Indie Pop / Shoegaze

The Looking Glass Studios, also known as Glass, was a renowned recording facility located in the NoHo neighborhood of lower Manhattan in New York City. Founded by the legendary musician Philip Glass, this studio served as both his personal workspace and a creative hub for other artists.

Although it is now closed, The Looking Glass Studios left an indelible mark on the music industry. With its state-of-the-art facilities and expert engineering team, it provided an ideal environment for musicians to bring their artistic visions to life. Not only did Glass utilize this space for his own projects, but he generously opened up the B-studio to allow other talented artists to record their music.

Under various name variations such as Looking Glass Studios, New York, NY, Looking Glass Studios, New York, USA, Looking Glass Studios, and Looking Glass, New York, this label has contributed immensely to shaping the sound of contemporary music. Although no longer operational, The Looking Glass Studios will forever be remembered as a sanctuary where creativity flourished and groundbreaking albums were born.

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Bristol's Snails return in exuberant form on their second full-length album, Hard-Wired. Recommended to the label by Stephen Pastel and he knows a good 'un when he hears one. Over 10 songs that unfold with an origami-like precision and attention to detail, the west country 6-piece expand their lush, outsider-pop template into new sonic and emotional territory, alchemising existential doubt into condensed elegies of often breathtaking beauty. From opener It Doesn't Have to be True, Hard-Wired envelops the listener in a comforting intimacy of sound and vocal harmony, overflowing with a subtlety of lyricism and generosity of spirit that led Pete Paphides to praise their debut Safe in Silence as "simply the most effortlessly charming set of songs I've heard in a long time."Recording sessions for the LP were spread across three different Bristol studios. With basic tracking completed, further elements were added in his bedroom studio, from vintage synths and drum machines, to strings, Mellotron and percussion. Arrangements and song structure in some cases went through several iterations until they rang true to songwriter Dan Weltman's ears.

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