Suffering Jukebox

Just as last qweek, this week's episode of Suffering Jukebox features also two interviews...

The first, with Mabe Fratti, a Guatemala born, Mexico City based, cellist working within the realms of experimental music. This Friday sees the release of Almost Waking, Fratti's collaborative album with guitarist Bill Orcutt. Almost Waking is released by Tin Angel Records, you can find out more about it here; https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/track/almost-waking and you can discover (and purchase ) more of Mabe's music here; https://mabefratti1.bandcamp.com/ 

The second interview is with Daniel Tuite, the vocalist for No Hoper, a Naarm based noise-rock group. No Hoper will be playing their first shows in south-east Queensland over the coming weekend. Catch them at Season Three Space on Friday May 22nd with Gentle Ben and His Shimmering Hands, Refedex and Granddaughter, at a secret location barn show on the Sunshine Coast on Saturday May 23rd with Jack Dylan and The Villains and Guppy and at PFR Lounge on Sunday 24th May with Valve, Moth Trap and Attention Shoppers. Find out more about No Hoper (and purchase their music) here; https://nohopermusic.bandcamp.com/

Nick's Pick of the Week is Snailgun's Glass Walls, which was released on Friday April 17th. You can hear it in all the usual places, or purchase it here; https://undunnrecords.bandcamp.com/album/snailgun-glass-walls and my review can be read below.

Snailgun: Glass Walls (UnDunn Records)

Released April 17th 2026

For the third time in as many weeks, the pick of the week features an album that was actually released in April. This isn’t to say that May hasn’t delivered some incredible albums (Kneecap, Tashi Dorji & Efrim Manuel Menuck and SUSS, to name but a few) but more widely indicative of the fact that I am still getting through a massive backlog of some stellar releases from last month. Snailgun’s Glass Walls is one such record. Released by Naarm label Undunn Records, Glass Walls is an abrasive slab of solid Aussie noise-rock that channels the very best the genre can offer.

Snailgun are a three piece who hail from Naarm/Melbourne. The band is comprised of Adam Osth on guitars, vocals and piano, Daniel Little providing bass and vocals and Sam Maher behind the drums. Glass Walls is their debut album, following a 2024 EP titled Reset Power Eject, and their first release for Undunn Records — a label run by Max Ducker from fellow Naarm noise makers, No Hoper.

Glass Walls features eight tracks, a mix of short, sharp songs reminiscent of the metallic clang of Big Black, Straight Ahead, Midway I and Midway II, to longer more expansive numbers like Shadow Operator, It’s Called Fear and Screamy Cat. As fun as the short songs are, Snailgun really spread their wings and come into their own on the extended tracks, with Screamy Cat, in particular, proving that the band aren’t above locking into a groove and not afraid to get weird.

Modern noise rock can be a fickle beast, with so many bands being far too derivative of those that have come before — for example, there a million bands that sound like Shellac, but only one Shellac. Snailgun do a bang up job of paying respect to the past whilst taking care to carve out their own unique place within the genre’s future. Glass Walls is a killer debut from a band who—by all accounts and purposes— appear to be in it for the long haul.

Nick Stephan