Snow Band Takes Down the Pervasiveness of Consumerist Culture on the Wonderfully Snarky “Never Change”

Snowy Band from Melbourne, Australia takes on the pervasive nature of corporate culture through the instrument of using marketing speak to process and sell back to you every strand of human experience with its single “Never Change” from its debut album Audio Commentary on Spunk! Records. The raw lead vocals and the melodic vocal harmonies pair well with warped and broken guitar lines and unconventional song dynamics to perhaps resist easy classification. Of course musically it’s somewhat reminiscent of Pavement and great Australian and New Zealand pop and alternative bands (really, those worlds blur and overlap quite a bit in so much of the music from both countries). But Snowy Band is very much its own thing with beautifully slackery and tasteful guitar solos and the ability to craft an earworm of a song without resorting to today’s tropes of pop music and production. When Liam Halliwell sings, “I don’t want a simple explanation from some viral tweet, TV, or a book I read. Don’t tell me how to grieve” it may not be a verbal Molotov cocktail to consumerism but it does strike at the heart of how so many of us don’t want to be treated like we’re stupid and only useful as a customer to whom we can be sold our own consciousness and lives as conditioned and created by a heartless set of processes and policies not designed with our cultivation as unique humans in mind. Watch the video for “Never Change” on YouTube and connect with Snowy Band at the links below.