Snakes & Ladders Records

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Snakes & Ladders Records
Founded 2005
Founder Anna Vincent, James Vincent, Sam Soper, Jamie Harrison
Genre Indie
Country of origin London, England
Official website http://www.snakesandladders.org.uk/

Snakes & Ladders Records (also S&L) is a London-based independent DIY label which specialises in art rock and new wave genres. The label was founded in late 2005 by Sam Soper, Jamie Harrison, Anna Vincent and James Vincent.

The label self-distributes to independent record shops around the UK (including London's Rough Trade and Sister Ray, Brighton's Rounder Records, Sheffield's Forever Changes) and worldwide (including Australia, France, USA, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, and Sweden) via its website.

In September 2006 S&L were invited to New York City by a local promoter to do a short tour with The Total Drop.

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[edit] Press

Snakes & Ladders has been written about in several UK music fanzines and magazines including ArtRocker, Maps (online), I Think You'll Find That's Fireworks (online), Lobster Quadrille and Antenna.

ArtRocker featured S&L as part of its DIY labels article (August 30th 2006) and included tracks by The Total Drop and The Roaring Twenties on the accompanying covermount CD. To date, S&L bands Plugs, Shock Defeat!, The Total Drop and The Roaring Twenties have all been well-reviewed in the publication.

Tracks from the label's sampler compilation S&LCD001 have also been played on the magazine's weekly radio programme on London's Resonance FM and even more notably on BBC Radio 1's Rob Da Bank show. Radio 1's Huw Stephens also made S&L his 'DIY-label-of-the-week' on his 'Best of Unsigned' programme, 27th September 2006.

"...with great certainty one would expect to hear a lot more from these bands and this label in the coming years." [1]

"...an excellent snapshot of the flourishing underground art-rock scene..." [2]

"They're doing it all on their own and as such deserve to be supported in their endeavours." [3]

"...an ace little record label." [4]

"Snakes and Ladders is the kind of label we all need. Desperately. Eccentric and wilful, they put out material that does not necessarily want to fit in with any current trend." [5]

[edit] Discography

[edit] EPs

[edit] Singles

  • How Did We Make it So Angry? - Shock Defeat [S&LCD002] (September 06)
  • Your Excellency - The Total Drop [S&LCD004] (January 07)
  • Nuit Americaine - The Total Drop [S&L007] (April 07)
  • I Am Pied Piper - Catnap [S&L005] (Nov 07)

[edit] Compilations

  • S&LCD001 - 18-track label sampler [S&LCD001] (March 06)

[edit] Artists

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Rough Trade Shop website, March 06
  2. ^ God is in the TV Zine, June 06
  3. ^ ArtRocker, June 06
  4. ^ Maps Magazine, November 06
  5. ^ ArtRocker, February 07

[edit] External links