Snailbait

by Azalia Snail

Snailbait cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Albertine
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A pioneering figure in the 90s lo-fi cassette underground, Azalia Snail's debut is a heavily distorted, intimately surreal foray into avant-garde psychedelic folk. The home-recorded, dreamlike aesthetic significantly influenced the impending explosion of American indie-pop and bedroom recording.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, avant-garde, atmospheric, female-vocals, guitars, acoustic, experimental, minimal, dreamy

Tracklist

  1. Azalia Bloom #16
  2. Another Slave Labour Day
  3. Nothing & Everywhere
  4. Flight #520
  5. Lovelessland
  6. Your Loss For My Gain
  7. Hiss & Crackle
  8. Epilogue
  9. Anywhere Is Here
  10. If I Had It All, I'd Give It All To You
  11. Driftless
  12. Sun In Your Face
  13. Baby Brother
  14. Far & Away (2:44)
  15. So Much More To Go

Credits

  • Azalia Snail - primary artist, guitar [guitars], vocals, percussion [guero], harmonica
  • Jason Austin - artwork [back cover]
  • Yasuko Yamakawa - artwork [cover]
  • Heather Meredith - flute
  • Rich Hutchins - gong [gongs], chimes, wood block, bongos, bells
  • Andy Nelson - kalimba, zither
  • John S. Hall - vocals

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