Clem Snide

One of indie rock's great also-rans, Clem Snide, have been an on-again, off-again vehicle
for Eef Barzelay's wry, country-inflected songcraft since the Nineties. Their latest album,
Hungry Bird, begins with an abstract ditty that sounds like Michael Stipe fronting Pavement,
and evolves into a meditation on maleness and mortality. The melodies and arrangements,
spiked with trombone and banjo, are simultaneously edgy and refined. And if ro... More >