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“We are anti-movements,” Jordan Jeffares declares on the title track of Snowden’s debut. He goes on to explain how the cool kids of the counter-culture might feel about riding the mainstream line during his exultant chorus: “One time we believed but now we don’t even try/And I can’t cut a rug, without my fashion drugs/Inebriation leads to revelation.” Later, on “Black Eyes,” getting stylishly high is still the priority, along with finding a well-dressed club partner who doesn’t need to be “with it”: “You look dark and pensive/As your heels hit the floor to the blaring Division/But you didn’t have much to say/But you were beautiful anyway.” Good for a Saturday night that calls for celebrating the flesh instead of Deep Conversation, and great for a frenzied joyride that layers Jaffares’s drone over needly riffs. But Jeffares is in a contrary mood, and the rest of Anti-Anti eschews the theme that works so well on Snowden’s other post-shoegazer treats — “Between the Rent and Me” and “Stop Your Bleeding.” Instead, the disc wades through the murk of the morning after when, really, Snowden sound leagues better on the dance floor, gobbling expensive drugs and finding someone cute to take home. Even with the hip-shakers, Anti-Anti is more about following the trend than rallying against anything much.
Snowden + ¡Forward, Russia! + DJ Carbo | Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston | November 27 | 617.566.9014
