Name: Automatic Midnight
Brand: Hot Snakes

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SP 1217 CD

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-01-23

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Sub P­op

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

098787121728

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

Artist

Hot Snakes

Genre US

Punk / Hardcore

Label US

Sub Pop Records

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.

Automatic Midnight, 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 Automatic Midnight, 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. 

Automatic Midnight

Music US