Indie Italo-Oregonian Pop Rockers Silver Snails releasing 2nd album after 10 year wait

More than 10 years in the making, The Silver Snails sophomore album, Speed of Light, seeks to embody the band’s slogan, ‘The world’s finest pop rock for a global audience’. Recorded painstakingly over a decade in Italy and Portland Oregon and co-produced by Dylan Magierek (Badman Records), Speed of Light is a string of 10 pearls lovingly crafted to uplift, inspire, and open the hearts of listeners. The album is being released September 5 on digital download, CD and streaming services. Their second single from the album is a high spirited cover of the Buggles’ chestnut, “Video Killed The Radio Star.”

More stylistically focused than The 7 Melodies, Speed of Light should delight lovers of classic rock such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Pink Floyd along with aficionados of gourmet contemporary indie pop such as The Shins, Band of Horses, The Flaming Lips, and Bon Iver. In addition to 9 originals by The Silver Snails, the album also includes an incredible cover of ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’, complete with original music video by The Silver Snails. Mixing and Mastering credits include grammy award winners Peter Katis (Tarquin Studios) and Greg Calbi (Sterling Sound), as well as Portland’s Adam Selzer.

The Silver Snails are an independent pop rock music project based in the medieval wine country of Romagna, Italy, with strong ties to the West Coast (USA). Anchored by the husband-and-wife duo of Lucas Ward and Elisa Fantini, their mission is to open human hearts through song. Describing themselves as a glam rock space pop family band, The Silver Snails draw from a diverse palette of musical influences including classic rock, pop, folk, electronica, Irish, jazz, Nigerian, Qawwali, Asian folk music, and more. The couple’s 3 children, Jasmine, Celeste and Elias participate actively in live performances, videos, and in the recording studio, having grown up ‘in the band’. The project is supported by a large community of family, friends, fans, artists, musicians and supporters.

The Silver Snails’ debut LP The 7 Melodies constituted an integrated musical spell designed to unlock joy and unleash magic within the lives of those who listen. Revealed by inspiration, diligently sculpted, recorded and mixed over a 2-year period and released in 2012, The 7 Melodies incorporate English, Italian, and French, with touches of Mandarin and Sanskrit. Fresh and melodic, the songs are stylistically adventurous yet firmly rooted in post-Beatles pop rock.

Prior to the release of Speed of Light, The Silver Snails released an appetizer in the form of an Elliott Smith cover, ‘Pretty (Ugly Before)’. The song is an homage to Elliott, who was a close friend of Lucas’ in high school and college, as well as a major musical influence. The song comes complete with a lyric video featuring unreleased pictures of Lucas and Elliott from college.