Zoon Van Snook is the alias of Alec Snook, a former keyboardist/sampler for UK bands such as Skunk Anasie and I Am Kloot. His debut full-length, (Falling from) The Nutty Tree, is a sort of pseudo-acoustic electronica album – also dubbed folktronica – featuring performed and programmed melodies on keyboards and sampled instruments over hip-hop beats. Think of contemporaries such as Dosh, Minotaur Shock, or Caribou.
The album’s first single, “Cuckoo,” is more in the electro vein, and it’s well done, but this is a really beautiful and composed album. The fifth track, “The Two Knives,” is dubbed “Cuckoo’s Reprise,” and it’s the same basic chord progression as “Cuckoo” but redone as a somber solo-piano piece.
Much of the rest of the album incorporates samples, field recordings, and vocal clips underneath the faux instruments, which often are percussive and very melodic. Many tracks are pieced together with big, glitched beats, and the result is an album that sparkles as much as it stutters. - Zoon Van Snook is the alias of Alec Snook, a former keyboardist/sampler for UK bands such as Skunk Anasie and I Am Kloot. His debut full-length, (Falling from) The Nutty Tree, is a sort of pseudo-acoustic electronica album – also dubbed folktronica – featuring performed and programmed melodies on keyboards and sampled instruments over hip-hop beats. Think of contemporaries such as Dosh, Minotaur Shock, or Caribou.
The album’s first single, “Cuckoo,” is more in the electro vein, and it’s well done, but this is a really beautiful and composed album. The fifth track, “The Two Knives,” is dubbed “Cuckoo’s Reprise,” and it’s the same basic chord progression as “Cuckoo” but redone as a somber solo-piano piece.
Much of the rest of the album incorporates samples, field recordings, and vocal clips underneath the faux instruments, which often are percussive and very melodic. Many tracks are pieced together with big, glitched beats, and the result is an album that sparkles as much as it stutters. - Alarm
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