release date: Apr. 1, 2001
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [3,22]
producer: Peter Sunding, Sort Sol
label: Mercury Records - nationality: Denmark
Track highlights: 1. "I'll Take Care of You" - 3. "Brogue" - 4. "Rhinestone" (4 / 5) - 5. "Next Century" - 7. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"
8th and final studio album by Sort Sol. It took the band 5 years to realise the album, and after Unspoiled Monsters and a band that was often quoted to be on the verge of a break-up, the release of a new album wasn't really expected. Despite coming from a bit of a failure, they basically perform very much as on the predecessor in terms of both style and sound.
Snakecharmer doesn't really change my perspective of a band that might as well give in. Without really impressing, the album also performs on par with the 1996 album. Bassist and central composer of the band, Knud Odde - who composed the best track(s) on the album - had become increasingly more occupied with his career as an artistic painter, and after this, he called it a day and left the band for good.
This album may not be the band's worst attempt but it's far from one of their best. All thanks to Knud Odde, the album is an original Sort Sol album, but if you're looking for artistic originality, you need to turn to the band's back catalogue.
The three remaining members continued performing as Sort Sol, although, also guitarist Lars Top-Galia left in 2004 after having released the soundtrack album Baby (2003) to the Danish movie by Linda Wendell. This left Steen Jørgensen and Tomas Ortved alone to bury the band, which they didn't. They put the band on a hold - hoping they would somehow be able to pick up the pieces and carry on. Persuaded, Top-Galia re-joined the two in 2010, and the band toured and played a number of live concerts in 2011 when rumours circulated that a new album was to be released in 'a near future'. As of late 2015 this has yet to be proven...
