Ecce Shnak - Craig’s List Jawn: ¡Nay! / ¡Yay!
Mercurial NYC art-rock quintet Ecce Shnak has unveiled the latest audio-visual offering from their new 'Backroom Sessions' EP, recently released via Records, Man Records, Titled 'Craig’s List Jawn: ¡Nay! / ¡Yay! (Live)', a song that casts aside daily drudgery and the need to impress, where the narrator finds joy in a messy, defiant love and the simple pleasure of shared domesticity. It's a "nay" to expectations and a resounding "yay" to unburdened connection.
Recorded at Backroom Studios in Rockaway, NJ, the 'Backroom Sessions' EP is a 4-song live set that also includes the raucous 'Fight Song' (Live), a hard-hitting track that offers an ironic take on violence and addressing today's rampant spread of hate-filled vitriol, as well as their groove-inducing opus 'Prayer On Love' (Live) and mind-blowing rock-opera 'Jeremy, Utilitarian Sadboy'.
Ecce Shnak (pronounced Eh-kay sh-knock) is David Roush (composer, bassist and one of two singers), Bella Komodromos (vocals), Chris Krasnow (guitar), Gannon Ferrell (guitar), and Henry Buchanan-Vaughn (drums). Where fervent brilliance blurs into absolute, uncontainable madness, there resides Ecce Shnak, balanced precariously upon an illuminated sonic high wire.
"While we originally filmed these performances for our YouTube channel, we felt the audio worked as a thrilling scamper through old material and new material alike," says Ecce Shnak frontman David Roush.
"In addition, we are finishing a new full-length album and wanted to have something to tide you over, dear Shnak’iversian, until its release next Spring. So until we can share 'Dandy Variances' with you all, here are the “Backroom Sessions.” We so hope you love them tremendously!"
Rejecting conventional aesthetics, Ecce Shnak whimsically incorporates diverse artistic expressions, tackling profound subjects and intriguing minutiae with remarkable clarity. Building on their recently-released debut 'Shadows Grow Fangs' EP, which showcases incomparable ingenuity and limitless invention, the band continue to blend art-rock and punk energy with some unexpected twists.
Recorded and produced by Jeff Lucci, this EP was mixed by Nicholas Vernhes (Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Wild Nothing, The War on Drugs) and mastered by Grammy award-winning engineer Joe LaPorta (David Bowie, The Weeknd, Foo Fighters, Vampire Weekend). Between its title track, web-mocking 'The Internet', sensual 'Prayer on Love', folk ballad 'Stroll With Me', and 150-second hammering lead track 'Jeremy, Utilitarian Sadboy', Ecce Shnak's powerful debut effort is intricately constructed, methodically fashioned, undeniably offbeat and truly entertaining.
The 'Backroom Sessions' EP is out now, available from fine digital music platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and Bandcamp. Ecce Shnak is now touring the U.S. West coast with platinum-selling legends Spacehog and EMF.
