Nashville's pandemic-born duo turned puppet-strewn punk chaos into one of Third Man Records' most kinetic acts.
MOODS · frenetic · playful · chaotic · high-energy · deadpan · punk · theatrical · irreverent · raw · danceable
BIOGRAPHY
Snõõper began in Nashville in 2020 as a lockdown recording project between vocalist Blair Tramel and guitarist Connor Cummins. Tramel, who had never sung or played an instrument before, initially planned only to make animated videos before writing lyrics and stepping up to the mic. Their homemade tapes, Music for Spies (2020) and Snooper (2021), spread a cult following before the pair took the project to the stage in late 2021.
Often filed under egg punk for its speed and playful edge, the band signed to Jack White's Third Man Records and released its debut album, Super Snõõper, in 2023. Their second album, Worldwide, followed in October 2025, recorded with producer John Congleton and built partly around a vintage Zoom MRT-3 drum machine.
WHY THEY'RE COOL
Snõõper's appeal starts with sheer velocity and spectacle: fast, raw guitar riffs paired with deadpan singsong vocals, all performed amid papier-mache puppets, a giant green bug mascot, whistles and flashing lights. Henry Rollins described their music as 45 rpm songs played at 78 that somehow work. What began as a DIY pandemic experiment by two Nashville scene regulars grew into a signing with Third Man Records and, on Worldwide, an expansion into electronic-tinged, dance-inflected territory recorded with John Congleton, showing a band pushing past its own manic template rather than repeating it.
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