Name: Automatic Midnight
Brand: Hot Snakes

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SP1217

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Limited Orange Vinyl with Download plus a new set of 6 stickers designed by the band’s Rick Froberg. 

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-01-19

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0098787121711

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

SPCD1217

Digipack with custom dust sleeve. 

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0098787121728

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

Artist

Hot Snakes

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Sub Pop

Hot Snakes are an American post-hardcore band led by Rick Froberg and John Reis, formed in 1999 in San Diego, California. Reis and Froberg had previously performed together in [a=Pitchfork (2)]  and [a=Drive Like Jehu], after which Reis had found international success with [a=Rocket from the Crypt]. Hot Snakes disbanded in 2005 but reunited in 2011.

Short for "Subterranean Pop" 

The label was an outgrowth of [a=Bruce Pavitt]'s Olympia, WA based (print) fanzine, which became the well respected cassettezine of the same name. 

After his move to Seattle he ran a music column in the Seattle Rocket also called Sub Pop.

After initial forays into the record label world with a [a=Green River] 7" (not officially on Sub Pop) and the Sub Pop 100 LP, the label exploded onto the indie scene with four influential colored vinyl 7"s which included [a=Mudhoney]'s "Touch Me I'm Sick" which made the year-end top 10 playlist of nearly every music journalist in the world.

Subsequent hyping of the label in the English music press put them on the map, and grunge was born.

Label-Code is 03159; rarely found printed on releases (basically only on releases manufactured/licensed by Warner/WEA Germany)

<i>Automatic Midnight,</i> Hot Snakes’ first studio album, originally came out in 2000. Both the band and the album began as a side project for John Reis in June 1999, during time off from his main band Rocket From the Crypt. Reis wrote and recorded a batch of songs in San Diego with Delta 72 drummer Jason Kourkounis. To provide vocals for the tracks Reis called in Rick Froberg, whom he had played with in Pitchfork and Drive Like Jehu from 1986 to 1995. Most of the material from these sessions was used to create <i>Automatic Midnight,</i> which became the first release for Reis' newly formed Swami Records label. The band’s sound represented a return to the unrealized past of its members: direct, undraped and rock ‘n’ roll while still maintaining the dense and turbulent character of the members’ previous work. In April or May of 2000, Hot Snakes added bassist Gar Wood, found their live sound and established themselves as primo, down-stroke warlords. A sinister and swaggering debut blast of fierce and turbulent all-star punk rock'n'roll. Guitars attack, drums pound, vocals destroy.

LP - Limited Orange Vinyl with Download plus a new set of 6 stickers designed by the band’s Rick Froberg. 

Automatic Midnight

Music GB

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