The brainchild of drummer Connor Cummins and vocalist Blair Tramel is the epitome of speed. Snooper‘s songs run at a blistering pace, with angular riffs sneaking in one ear and out the other, propelled by frenzied percussion. The Nashville five-piece – completed by bassist Happy Haugen, drummer Brad Barteau, and guitarist Conner Sullivan – squeeze in as many ideas as possible in tunes shy of two minutes, this off-the-cuff musicianship making their 22-minute 2023 debut album, Super Snõõper, feel twice as long and substantial. The wild silliness of abandoning a groove for a totally different one halfway into a barely minute-long song, just for the sake of it, is what makes them addictive.
On Worldwide, Snooper have smoothed out…