Ecce Shnak Blurs the Line Between Genius and Madness with New EP and Video

NYC outfit Ecce Shnak presents their debut EP Shadows Grow Fangs, showcasing incomparable ingenuity and limitless invention over five songs, along with a fun and intriguing new video for the title track. If there’s a fine line between wild-eyed, inspired genius and utter, irrepressible insanity, that’s where you’ll find Ecce Shnak, teetering on a neon tightrope.

Led by David Roush, Ecce Shnak subverts notions of style, playfully but reverently embracing multiple forms across the spectrum while addressing weighty themes and notable trivia with striking articulacy. This EP runs the gamut from slow-burning meditations on love’s indispensability to mockery of the web from the perspective of a time-traveling poet.

Ecce Shnak recently shared the single “The Internet”, and eclectic gem that makes a fine mockery of the web from the perspective of a time-travelling poet, following the downtempo groove-inducing opus “Prayer on Love” and the lead track “Jeremy, Utilitarian Sadboy’ a 150-second track about 19^th Century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham that combines math-metal, post-rock and choral anthems.

“Though we’re just releasing it now, the song ‘Shadows Grow Fangs’ is around 15 years old. I started writing it before I had even committed to a life as a musician, when I was a mere 25-year-old living and working in South Philadelphia, thinking I would become a psychotherapist someday. ‘Shadows Grow Fangs’ is about the tragic misunderstandings of ourselves, other people, and everybody’s wants and needs in those horrifying moments in which we feel abandoned and threatened. Tragically, sometimes people alienate ourselves from one another precisely when we need each other most. Worse still, sometimes we alienate ourselves from each other precisely when we could be of greatest help to one another.”

– David Roush

Recorded and produced by Jeff Lucci, this EP was mixed by Nicholas Vernhes (Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Wild Nothing, The War on Drugs) and mastered by Grammy-winning engineer Greg Calbi (John Lennon, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Tomy Petty). Ecce Shnak’s EP release show happens on February 26 at The Red Pavilion in New York.