Posts TaggedSnakeskin

Video Premiere: Snakeskin “Blindsided”

“Blindsided” catches us in its web before we realize we’re trapped. “How to love in the face of this death?,” Sabra serenades in the chorus, spelling out the album’s core theme. The combination of the propulsive, almost buoyant rhythm with Sabra’s lilting vocal melodies and Tabbal’s layered electronics is captivating, both exultant and ethereal. We […]

The Seltzer Salon #10: Fadi Tabbal

I’ve been pretty floored by a lot of the music coming out of Beirut over the last few years – and I realize I’m a bit late to the party here – but the city’s scene has produced a handful of my absolute favorite albums in recent memory. One thing many of those records have […]