These Arms Are Snakes have succeeded in creating an album that will be definitive in the years to come.  Full text...

Easter is by far the best recording they’ve done, both sonically and musically.  Full text...

These Arms Are Snakes delivers one of the best albums to come from the post-hardcore (or punk and hardcore, for that matter) underground his year.  Full text...

That’s not to say that Easter is a bad record – far from it, as there are moments of brilliance to be found within – it’s just that, like Oxeneers, it struggles to maintain momentum. There are also some interesting reference points, as ‘Child Chicken Play’ schnaffles the classic riff from The Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Zero’, while, altogether more worryingly, ‘Desert Ghost’ sounds like a protracted Linkin Park intro.  Full text...

Instead of building a laboratory to test the limits of its formidable talent and ambition, These Arms have turned Easter into a dumping ground for a diarrhea of ideas.  Full text...