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Vinyl Snails

Listening notes

Vinyl Snails is a various-artists compilation released in 2009 on BSBTA Vinyl, catalogued as BSBTAVINYL7. The record spans nine tracks across two sides and draws from an unusually broad stylistic range, with listed genres encompassing avantgarde, electronic, experimental, folk rock, lo-fi, noise, non-music, psychedelic rock, rhythmic noise, and rock. That breadth alone signals an intentional eclecticism, though what unites these contributors under the BSBTA Vinyl imprint is a question the listener is left to work out independently.

Side A opens with "Original Record 2" at just under three minutes before moving into the considerably longer "La Voz Que Habia," which runs to six minutes and five seconds. "El Alud" follows as the shortest entry on the side at two minutes and nine seconds, and "This Is Our Post-Exotic Anthem" extends the sequence at four minutes and forty-eight seconds. The side closes with "Gibsrumcolalgebsbta," the longest track on the A side at six minutes and thirty-one seconds, a title that resists easy categorization in keeping with the record's general disposition.

Side B carries the compilation's weightiest material by duration. "Cresting" opens the side at five minutes and twelve seconds, giving way to "About To Collapse," the longest single track on the record at seven minutes and eleven seconds. "Born Buried" arrives as a comparatively brief two minutes and fifty-three seconds before the record concludes with "Ind I Kuglen" at six minutes and fifty seconds, a title in Danish that translates roughly to "Into the Ball."

Total playing time across both sides runs to approximately forty-four minutes. The mix of Spanish, English, and Danish track titles, taken alongside the genre spread, suggests a compilation drawing contributors from more than one country and musical background, though specific artist attributions are not confirmed in the available data and are not listed here. Vinyl Snails stands as a document of the BSBTA Vinyl label's output in 2009, its scope and intent best assessed by consulting the original release directly.