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Over the course of their seven-year run back in the '00s, These Arms Are Snakes covered a lot ofterritory, both in terms of actual miles spent on the road and in terms of their creative bandwidth.Though the band was often mistaken for a typical non sequitur-named screamo outt or anotherInchanimalInch indie band, the Seattle group quickly deed expectations and garnered a reputation forsubverting the popular underground sounds of time. The group cultivated a small but fervent fanbaseacross multiple continents with their signature combination of synth-infused noise rock, bad-trippsychedelia, amboyant proto-metal boogie, and unhinged basement-show hardcore beforeimploding at the end of 2009. And while These Arms Are Snakes' full-length albums remain ttingtestaments to the band's frantic urgency and stylistic uidity, there is a treasure trove of deep cutsburied on b-sides and split releases that further reinforce their position as one of the weirdest andwildest acts of the decade. For the rst time, those rarities and one-offs have been compiled into acohesive overview of These Arms Are Snakes' lifespan on the double LP Duct Tape & Shivering Crows. Album Tracks 1. Meet Your Mayor 2. Camera Shy 3. Trix 4. Energy Drink and the Long Walk Home 5. Heart Shaped Box 6. Washburn 7. Old Paradise 8. Payday Loans 9. Hook on This 10. Riding the Grape Dragon (Demo) 11. Run It Through the Dog (Demo) 12. Diggers of Ditches Everywhere (Demo) 13. The Blue Rose (Demo)
