€28,85
AHT 166 – Limited Edition of 105 copies with individually designed and hand drawn sleeves.
Listen to the album on Bandcamp here.
Track Listing
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As A Matter Of Fact (Original 7” version)
Bugs (Electrical And Musical Industries Version)
Scrabble (Live at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow 20th Oct 1995)
If I Had A Hi-Fi (Vic Galloway BBC Radio Scotland Session)
Not As Smart As You
Ring To Me
I Am God (Sounds version)
Bleached Out Rainbows
Action Hero (Sounds version)
Gold In Her Hand
T.R.E.
Twenty Six Letters
Notes
Spare Snare arrive from Dundee like an old cassette recorder rediscovered in an attic: a little dusty, unmistakably alive, filled with stories that have no urgency to end. Active for over three decades, they move through time without ever polishing themselves too much, loyal to an aesthetic that favors imperfection over gloss, tremor over pose.
Theirs is a form of gentle resistance. An indie rock that doesn’t demand attention but quietly holds it, the way certain low voices do in nearly empty bars. Inside, you find melodies that feel familiar even on first listen, guitars that never fight for the spotlight, and lyrics that drift between the everyday and a kind of worn-in disillusionment, carried with a slightly off-center grace that only comes from having seen enough.
It isn’t nostalgia, it’s continuity. Spare Snare sound as if time were a broken line, where past and present keep brushing against each other. Their songs don’t explode, they settle. And by the time you notice, they’ve already become part of the landscape.
For Almost Halloween Time Records, they stand as a quiet constant: proof that it’s possible to remain faithful to a vision without becoming predictable. Music that doesn’t chase, but waits. And because of that, it always finds someone willing to listen.
released August 7, 2026
Album credits
Ring To Me, I Am God, Bleached Out Rainbows and Action Hero recorded and engineered by Steve Albini.
As A Matter Of Fact, T.R.E. and Twenty Six Letters recorded by Jan Burnett.
Scrabble, Not As Smart As You and Gold In Her Hand recorded by Spare Snare.
If I Had A Hi-Fi recorded live at BBC Radio Scotland, 08/10/2018, produced by Lindsay Gillies, engineered by Joanna Adams.
As A Matter Of Fact, Bugs, Scrabble, Action Hero, T.R.E. and Twenty Six Letters written by Jan Burnett.
Not As Smart As You, I Am God and Gold In Her Hand written by Jan Burnett / Alan Cormack / Barry Gibson / Adam Lockhart / Graeme Ogston.
Ring To Me and Bleached Out Rainbows written by Jan Burnett / Alan Cormack / Barry Gibson / Michael Lambert / Adam Lockhart / Graeme Ogston.
All titles are Copyright Control / PRS.
Spare Snare is a U.K. Trade Mark, number UK00004111998
All recordings are licensed by Chute Records, Scotland. ℗ and © 2026 Chute Records.
sparesnare.bandcamp.com
Artwork by Luigi Falagario
Additional information
| Weight | .250 kg |
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