Following Cheersquad’s reissues of other Snout gems The New Pop Dialogue and Circle High and Wide in recent years, their 1994 debut What’s That Sound? is issued for the first time on vinyl.
Founded by singer/songwriter, Ross McLennan, Snout, formed in Melbourne in 1991 and disbanded in 2002. They released numerous recordings and were twice nominated for an ARIA Award. Their label affiliations included Half A Cow and most-prominently Au-go-go, and they were part of the same Melbourne scene that produced the likes of Even, Rail and McLennan’s bother Link’s band the Meanies. They shared bills with all these bands, got loads of Triple J, community radio and street press love, performed on Recovery, featured heavily on Rage and played festivals such as The Big Day Out, Falls Festival, Livid and Meredith.
Melodically and sonically, Ross McLennan is one of Australia’s unheralded pop geniuses. With Snout he loaded his songs with hooks, humour and a great fuzzy buzzy sound not too dissimilar to that of Redd Kross, who they supported on an early Australian tour.
The reissue of What’s That Sound? is available now from Cheersquad Records on limited edition blue and red smash 12″ vinyl (100 only), black 12″ vinyl and digitally.