Live Review: LISTEN: Snakadaktal 'Dance Bear'

Melbourne barely legals SNAKADAKTAL (think Napoleon Dynamite's "liger" but with snake and pterodactyl parents) are back and they've cranked up the production values for their new track "Dance Bear".

Having taken out the 2011 edition of Triple J Unearthed High, this quintet of sickening talent are currently preparing to hit us with a highly anticipated debut album. And just to underline their status as one of the country's most exciting new acts they've recently wrapped up a batch of national tour dates supporting The Jezebels.

"Dance Bear" gives the Snakadaktal indie pop sound a whole new sense of scale. Underpinned with a thumping synth beat, it flips between hushed melancholic verses and muscular chorus's that graduate into a relative wall of sound. A steady build in tension finally culminates in a goosebump inducing instrumental finale, topped off with a stadium sized guitar riff that serves as notice for their seemingly grand ambitions. It's a cliffhanger of an ending that perfectly sets the mood of expectation for the new material being readied for unveiling, but for now we'll just just have to remain content by hitting repeat and waiting for that red curtain rise.

Words by Brad Davies

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