Columbus indie pop trio snarls have announced their new Chris Walla-produced album, "With Love", set for release on May 3, 2024 via Take This To Heart Records. With the announcement the band has released the crush-worthy anthem, "Heavy Drinker" and more recently, dropped another incredible track from the record in "baby bangs," and it's a heavy hitter. The song is a fuzzy and magnetic convergence of introspection and fear that sounds like the forgotten midtempo jam hiding between #1 hits on any number of early 2000s pop records. Vocalist and songwriter Chlo White spends most of the track unpacking her own self-destructive insecurities, but in a way that also works as a statement on unrealistic beauty standards and how they can negatively impact our ways of interacting with the world and others. "It's hard to understand why I care about what I look like more than who I am," she sings. "That was a lyric I didn't feel like I had to overthink, it was just true. Simultaneously, putting the pieces together as a band felt natural. When I brought the song to Mick's basement, it wasn't long before everyone was on the same page."

Four years ago, Columbus band snarls manifested their own future with their debut album, Burst ––it quickly took the indie world by storm, despite launching amidst a global pandemic. It connected them with their now go-to producer, the legendary Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie, Foxing, Ratboys), and even caught the attention of pop star Louis Tomlinson, who took the band out on tour last year.

Made at Walla's remote studio in Norway––marking the first time any of the members had ever left the country––With Love has an obvious warmth to it, radiating with themes of empowerment, self-reflection, queer love, and more. Every song is an expression of love to either one's self, a friend, or a lover.

Musically, it wades in the waters of hook-heavy pop, 90s alternative, shoegaze, and heart-on-a-string indie-rock. Teaming with Walla, snarls create a lavish soundscape that balances high-powered guitars with ethereal vocal harmonies, constructing a sound uniquely intimate to the moment it was made.

Nearly all of With Love was written during sessions when the entire band –– vocalist/guitarist Chlo White (she/her), bassist/vocalist Riley Hall (she/her), and guitarist/vocalist Mick Martinez (she/her)–– were in the room together, even down to the lyrics. It's a beautiful product of collaboration with your absolute best friends. The band explains: "We wrote this record during a time of serious introspection for the whole group, and it covers all kinds of topics from love to loss, confidence to self-loathing, all the various ups and downs we've gone through in such a transformative period of time."

RIYL: Momma, Softcult, Snail Mail