I’m only happy when I sleep
But lately I just lay awake
Wishing I could realign
My heart is starting to feel fake
Hang your jacket on my door
I know I barely know your name
Loving me can be a chore
Cause everything is so mundane
And I, I wanna make you come to life
All the way
So I’ll never have to worry that you’ll fade
I’m so sick of feeling blue
Got good at being alone
I’m starting to feel like you did, too
By the colors that you’ve shown
I’m not upset, I’ve got regrets
I know you just want to try me on
I know that I’ve been so closed off but after all of this
Oh I, I wanna make you come to life
All the way
So I’ll never have to worry that you’ll fade away
Has anyone else made you feel the same thing? Baby,
And all it ever took was for me to say
Where’d you go if I can’t come?
Where’d you run if I can't chase you?
Where’d you bike if I can’t drive?
Where’d you sleep if I can’t trace you?
By the way, I think you
Get to recall once or twice
What I meant to you
And what that means to me
I couldn’t tell you why
I’m a fool for you
I used to think that you were
An angel
But only when you’d say the words
That meant everything
I couldn’t tell you why
I’m a fool for you
I couldn’t tell you why
I’m a fool for you
What I meant to you, what that means to me
What I meant to you, what that means to me
What I meant to you, what that means to me
What I meant to you, what that means to me
I don’t care where we go
I’ll follow you
Into the flames
Into the cold
Oh, in my heart I don’t know where to start
To lift off but I think for now
I’ll follow you
It’s the only thing that makes sense
Ooh, Ooh
I’ll follow you
I’ll follow you
No, the world doesn’t care
If you feel alone
Into the flames
We fucking go
Oh, in my heart I don’t know where to start
To lift off but I think for now
I’ll follow you
Like it’s the last thing I’ll ever do
Ooh
I’ll follow you
I don’t care where we go, I’ll follow you
I don’t care where we go, I’ll follow you
I’ll follow you
I’ll follow you
I saw you sparkling
Like in a movie
I saw you sparkling
In the rain
Ooh, ooh
Taking the flight, I might
What’s there to lose again? Why?
Running away state-side
To the love of my life
I like the way you look
You look into me
I think the world could stop
So what if it does?
Taking the flight, I might
What’s there to lose again? Why?
Running away state-side
To the love of my life
I saw you sparkling
Like in a movie
I think the world could stop
So what if it does?
Ooh, ooh
If only I could find a way to learn how
To see the wrong in people dear to me
Then maybe I wouldn’t be so afraid of
Falling for the ones who always leave
Ooh, ooh
If only I could better understand you
Then you wouldn’t feel so far away
And people think that it’d be fun to be a ghost
But could you love somebody you can’t see?
Ooh, ooh
I hate how you are so far away
What I’d do to get you close to me
I’m so sick of feeling like a ghost
Could you love somebody you can’t see?
Could you love somebody you can’t see?
Could you love somebody you can’t see?
Could you love somebody you can’t see?
Could you love somebody you can’t see?
Ooh, ooh
about
“Everything sort of lined up, but I don’t believe in coincidences.” Chlo White could be talking about any of the several key moments in her musical history: meeting best friend and bassist Riley Hall on the first day at a new school while they both wore the same pair of obscure Vans, being soon introduced to guitarist Mick Martinez that same week, and then finding drummer Max floating around their garage practice space. That might’ve been the easiest part of the puzzle. He’s Mick’s brother.
Snarls, the Columbus band built from these cosmic connections, is an exercise in manifestation. After their debut album Burst captured an early audience with its glittering, wide-eyed take on indie pop, the band regrouped to enter the cavernous wilderness of their next phase. “We had time to stew on this new aura our band has for this release. We have entirely new musical influences, and working with Chris Walla—that’s when it hit me that we’re in a band,” White gushes. If Snarls had to fold up their new aura into an easily packaged hype paragraph, they probably wouldn’t. “We’re in the ‘pressed flowers’ phase of our band,” White continues. “Burst was taking a fistful of glitter and throwing it, but this EP was more intentional.”
What About Flowers?, Snarls’ Walla-produced EP, pulses with the rhythm of the Pacific Northwest. It’s a release that shines in solitude and asks questions of absences: the same winning formula that’s gripped the region for decades. In the year-plus since Burst, the band has scaled their emotional intelligence to match their growth off-mic, transforming the simmering “For You” from a tender moment into a tortured one and opener “Fixed Gear” from worry to weightlessness. “If Only,” the set’s closer, is another ghostly expression of tension and release—when the band lets up for air, the lyrics are choked by confusion and loneliness. The floating understanding of wanting to be together and missing the things that make one whole pervades much of Flowers?, the second act of Snarls’ identity play.
Chlo remembers being young and spellbound by the Columbus skyline, so much so that sharing Seattle with Riley awakened a shared dream: this band was real. Snarls has flourished through similar unspoken realizations: playing packed house shows on their first runs, forecasting their “leaps and bounds” via a tarot reading the night before an album release, watching the tender thread between artist and listener be forged in real-time. This one just found the words.
Bio: James Cassar
credits
released November 12, 2021
All songs written and performed by snarls.
Snarls is Chlo White (vocals, guitar), Riley Hall (bass, vocals), Mick Martinez (guitar), and Max Martinez (drums).
Produced, engineered, and mixed by Chris Walla at Hall Of Justice in Seattle, WA.
Assistant engineered by Mike Davis.
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music.
Subsonic Eye combines math rock, dream pop, and guitar sounds borrowed from post-rock for songs that whirl and flurry, but never quite settle. Bandcamp Album of the Day Sep 15, 2023