Name: Forest Of Your Problems
Brand: Snapped Ankles

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BAY126VRT

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Colour

Blue

Colour details

Transparent Blue / Black Splat

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Cornucopian Edition. With Printed Inner and Insert. Housed in Paper Bag.

Format Music US

Limited edition

2000

Release date

2021-07-02

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

843190012640

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes / Signed copies: No / blue

LP-BAYL-126LE

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Grey

Recycled Forest Floor Vinyl.

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Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Indie Exclusive. The Protestor Edition.

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2021-09-10

843190012633

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / grey

CD-BAYL-126

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Extended format: No

2021-07-09

RTUK

843190012626

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes / Signed copies: No

Artist

Snapped Ankles

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

The Leaf Label

Albums of the Year 2021

Snapped Ankles is an East London-based band formed in 2011 by Austin, Zampirolo & Sol Haim. Known for their unique live shows, the band combines live improvisations with chopped-up 1960s films and synthesizers. They released their first single, "True Ecology (Shit Everywhere)", in 2012 and followed up with "I Want My Minutes Back" in 2015. Their debut album, Come Play the Trees, was released in September 2017. With Ursula Russell on drums and JD Parry on bass, they toured extensively for their second album Stunning Luxury in 2019.

In July 2021, Snapped Ankles released their third album titled "Forest Of Your Problems", which was written during the Covid-19 pandemic. The album features Austin on vocals, log synths, guitars, and organs; Chestnutt on synths and logs; Stuart Handy on drums; and JD Parry on synth bass. The band continued to showcase their creativity with the release of Blurtations EP in April 2023.

With a growing discography that includes singles, EPs, and albums spanning various genres like punk rock and experimental music, Snapped Ankles continues to captivate audiences with their innovative soundscapes.

Vinyl variants, bonus material and signed editions exclusively available from Rough Trade.

Snapped Ankles return to the forest, but it’s not as they left it. Trees planted in neat rows. A well-ordered monoculture with access roads and heavy machinery. The smell of greenwashed money in the air. There’s no sign of the ancient woodland they emerged from on debut album, Come Play The Trees. And it’s far cry from the gentrified East London they found themselves hawking on Stunning Luxury. All is not well in the face of progress. Welcome to the Forest Of Your Problems.

Even among the famously close-knit woodwose community there are factions forming. Meet The Businessman, The Cornucopian, The Nemophile and The Protester. Each with their own motivations and belief systems. Their own sense of injustice: contradictions, anxieties and guilt.

There are woodwose who have risen to the top in the boom and bust world of real estate and hedge funds. Grab what you can before the next crash. Others find euphoria in the absolute conviction that wealth and technology will see us through this. There are those with their recycling in order, who are well-versed in the prospect of imminent ecological and economic collapse, burying themselves in vegan cookery and extensive international holiday itineraries. And there’s an increasing number angry at the state of the world, ready to take to the streets and the trees in an attempt to force real change.

Forest Of Your Problems runs the gamut of modern woodwose emotions. In this neat human approximation of the forest, it’s an increasingly knotted affair. Despite all of this, Snapped Ankles haven’t lost their innate ability to make you want to move your feet - their Teutonic forest rhythms are still shot through with post-punk lightning. Whether they’re exploring those opportunities which might arise when a Nigerian prince emails out of the blue on ‘The Evidence’, or referencing the crooked woodwose attempting to go straight on ‘Rhythm Is Our Business’, this is music to lose your inhibitions to. The moments of pure elation on ‘Shifting Basslines Of The Cornucopians’ are worth the admission price alone - “It’s a great time to be alive!” ...apparently.

Forest Of Your Problems

Music US

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