Worldwide

Snõõper’s birdbrained synth-punk is both a sign of our screen-addled times and a callback to a long history of weirdos who use punk as a portal to childlike, almost alien states, from Devo and The B-52’s through Butthole Surfers and Brainiac to contemporary artists like Prison Affair. *Worldwide*—their second album for Jack White’s Third Man Records—boils down their style to its essence: brief (12 tracks, 28 minutes), noisy, catchy, bright; endlessly entertained (“Company Car”) but deeply fried (“Blockhead”)—all your favorite notifications, all at once. As with the Ramones before them, the real radical idea is that maybe all this getting dumber stuff isn’t so bad.

Snooper’s vision of egg punk is more hygienic; the full experience is still reserved for the stage, and with Worldwide they’ve fantastically magnified a glimpse of it.

Snõõper shifts into high gear on their second record, expelling pent-up energy through warped instruments and tantalizing beats.

Worldwide by Snooper album review by Louis Pelingen for Northern Transmissions. The band's LP is now out via Third Man Records