The Snare

The Snare is the third album by the Scottish band Looper, released in 2002. Frontman Stuart David adopted the persona of Peacock Johnson. Production The album shares themes and characters with David's novel The Peacock Manifesto. "This Evil Love" is about romantic obsession. The music shifted from the dance styles of the first two albums to include downbeat and trip hop elements. Critical reception Pitchfork wrote: "Easy to dismiss, smirk at, or even hate on the fist listen, nine out of The Snare'''s ten tracks are grind-and-pause, semi-sultry pairings of exotic keyboard settings and mid-tech beats that exploit their refrains and come weirdly close to the patterns of 'risqué' after-dinner radio pop circa 1999-present." Exclaim! determined that "as an isolated album it comes across as little more than sub-par art pop whose tunes are monotonous and whose lyrics are obtuse." The Gazette considered it "a dark, brooding work which holds together well, but struggles to free itself from its own weight."