Snakehouse by The Cliks

Snakehouse, the Cliks' major-label debut, arrived on April 24, 2007, through Warner Music in Canada and Tommy Boy in the US, and it's the sound of Lucas Silveira starting over. The singer and guitarist had watched the original Cliks fall apart in 2005, his bandmates quitting after the messy end of a long relationship, and he rebuilt the group around himself with players rotating through. Moe Berg produced.

It's a lean, hooky record, all Joan Jett-sized riffs and power-pop stomp, as the Cleveland Scene put it, with Silveira's voice slinking and snarling over the top. The Chicago Tribune heard fire in his vocals and a man done keeping quiet, and Exclaim! praised its bare-bones sincerity and its sonic explosions. "Oh Yeah" is the song that won over alternative radio. It followed the earlier self-titled Cliks album, and Dirty King came next.

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