Unbunny--Snow Tires (2004)

Artist-Unbunny
Album-Snow Tires
Release Date-Aug 10, 2004
Genre/Style-Indie Pop
Size-38M
Quality-VBR

Official Site-http://www.unbunny.com/index.htm and http://www.myspace.com/unbunny

Biography-Unbunny began in 1995 with the release of the Analog cassette. The Willis Files cassette followed in 1996. Analog and The Willis Files were re-released in 1997 on CD, on Tray Full of Lab Mice Records and Esque Records respectively. Guitarist/vocalist Jarid Del Deo quickly turned heads with his high-pitched, emotionally-raw vocals, while drummer James Ess and guitarist Steve Haruch provided support for the lo-fi indie rock trio. Saltwater Records released the band's five-song vinyl single in 1997 as well. 1998 saw the release of Fission, Romance, the West on Oakland, California's Paris Caramel Records. The album was later re-released by Esque and Two-Ton Santa Records. Esque released the For Nervous Plants EP in 1999. The self-released Book and Roll EP appeared in 2001. The band briefly changed its name to Nervous Plants for a split release with Milkweed on wo-Ton Santa later in 2001. The band relocated from Washington State to Illinois for the release of Black Strawberries in October 2002, again on Two-Ton Santa Records.

Youtube online videos-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UttoZS6HVHI

Review-Indie pop survivor Jarid del Dio finally secures solid label representation with Parasol's release of Snow Tires, his fifth album under various monikers and incarnations. Neutral Milk Hotel is still a big influence here, as del Dio's songs dawdle and coalesce with a similar disregard for structure, but with an uncanny knack for plaintive melodies and weirdly insightful turns of phrase. "All over town," he begins on "Casserole," "The flat-chested trailer brides/Their braces and bottle caps jangle like tambourines." And we can see del Dio wandering through the connecting yards and hanging laundry, dragging his white elephant of a failed relationship on a long fraying leash. "I Leave Stones Unturned" is a sparkly, bittersweet pop song driven by scratchy electric guitar, warm electric piano, and Roy Ewing's punchy drums. Its chorus is reprised offhandedly at the start of "I Knock Things I Haven't Tried," a quieter number guided by acoustic guitar, subtle synths, and what sounds like a sample of air brakes on a city bus. It's another side to the same argument, like the whispers after the screams. Maybe its del Dio's warbly, Neil Young-as-whiny-barista vocal, but Unbunny can at times suggest a sparer version of Mercury Rev, or even Modest Mouse. There's a similar sense of a psychological struggle twisting behind the tossed-off phrases and pop culture pipe bombs; the music is quieter, but informed with those same qualities of squinty indie pop. The gentle "FM" is a big, big standout, beginning with a kid's chorus harmonizing like a Lilliputian version of the Polyphonic Spree, and "Pink Lemonade" really plays up that Neil Young-ness, offering dusty acoustic strums and shuffling drums tickled by twangy guitar fuzz. Fans of smart stuff like Elf Power and Clem Snide, take note.

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