
"Musically,
Kevin Wiggins and Snacks have got it going on: seemingly at will, and
most likely in their own suburban basement, they're able to conjure ten
different flavors of bubblegum, from Jackson Five funk to Elvis Costello
power pop. The arrangements are inventive, the playing is tight and their
love for 20 years of radio rock is evident and infectious."
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Splendid Magazine
"Snacks music is wonderfully out of time...sagely ageless. It has
a sense of a summer day, drinking cider watching cricket on the Village
green. In the 70's. While wearing floaty cotton shirts."
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C. Penfold
"Listening to 'United Nations of Snacks' took me off to a mental place
where I'm still 15 and life is stretching out in front of me like an endless
chip n' putt course on a sweet summer eve.
Snacks
has a spooky ability (shared with the likes of Elvis Costello, Joe Pernice,
and Brian Wilson) of writing the effortless-sounding pop song."
-
Joe Gangemi, author of
Inamorata
"Songs like these don't just pop out of one's head, although if they
did we'd all be Goffin and King. What the Snacks chefs have done is marry
the seventies soft pop aesthetic to a slightly edgy percussion base, where
edgy isn't anything stronger than a light breeze striking a leaf with
a half-hearted gust. These aren't dance tunes, but they are head-bobbers
and toe-tappers and they'll put a smile on your face, and they are very,
very good."
-
Alan Haber, Pure Pop (Click HERE
for full review)
United Nations of Snacks rocked WVIA DJ George Grahm's"Best of 2005"
list.
"Stop and think for a moment if you will and imagine Randy Newman,
Elvis Costello and Billy Preston are taking the place of the lion, the
scarecrow, and the tin man in the "Wizard of Oz." Okay, now the scene
switches to when they are with Dorothy traveling along the yellow brick
road, suddenly they ditch her because she doesn't rock out like they do,
eventually they find the poppy fields just before the entrance of the
castle and get wasted on the opium vapors and begin to jam…what a story
huh?
The
band Snacks is similar to that scenario, and the same kind of feeling
and changing of roles with characters (or musicians) applies to their
bouncy music. It's catchy as hell and hard not to like, anyone from ages
8-80 could cut a rug to their tunes. Their goal seems clear as a bell…have
fun and play music that makes people smile. There are not too many people
making music like this today."
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Music Dish Magazine
"SNACKS! A rare compound of unforgettable pop melodies and hooks
delivered through an eclectic filter. Like The Attractions backing Genesis-era
Peter Gabriel."
-John
F.
"Kevin Wiggins and Snacks craft a classic take on pop/rock, ranging
from white boy R&B to early Billy Joel piano rock to trippy, retro synth
rock. Their love of the Beatles and oddball independence make Snacks a
solid, quirky, band in the spirit of ELO."
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All Music Guide
"Snacks is the soundtrack to a Saturday spent by one's self, doing
the fun things that one rarely gets to do, and feeling the freedom of
one's childhood while doing them."
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The Onceler
"Snacks music is a sweet confection that blends the best of XTC, Genesis,
and '70s TV cartoon themes and still manages to be good for your health.
There is honestly nothing like it out there. The complexity of the song
structures and chord progressions keep it from being lightweight, yet
it all rolls off your ear like syrup."
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Big Shout Magazine
Snacks was the feature DIY review in the December issue of
Performing Songwriter Magazine, which had Dave Matthews
on the cover and a stellar review of Snacks' music within.
"Beautifully Crafted Pure AM Radio Pop Gold. 10cc, Wings, The Monkees,
and Hall & Oates meet Phil "Buster" Collins inside a lava lamp!"
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R. Dog Woggins
"Nothing is seemingly cool about Kevin Wiggins and Snacks' love for unyielding
pop hooks and dramatic theatrics. Too bad they write such damn good, addictively
catchy pop songs."
-Action
Man Magazine
"The snacks sound is the caliope of the merry-go-round at some fictitious
county's fair in the land of make-believe, which bears a remarkable resemblance
to an unblemished English countryside on a sunny spring day."
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J.R.
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