Snout Release First New Song In 13 Years For Asylum Seekers

Much adored Melbourne indie-rockers Snout have released their first new song in 13 years, it's called Turn All The Lights Down Low and it's being released as a way of raising some funds for a very worthy cause.

Snout frontman Ross McLennan has long been a supporter of asylum seekers and when a hunger strike at the Broadmeadows detention centre took place this April, it inspired him to write the song featured here today.

Turn All The Lights Down Low is available on Bandcamp right now for one dollar (or more, if you please) and all funds will be donated to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.

It apparently didn't take long for McLennan to realise this was a song that had to be recorded by Snout, who have been broken up since 2002, so he hooked up with drummer Ewan McCartney and guitarist Greg 'Soul Train' Ng and they put the song down.

While the band have come together every now and then over the years, McLennan says this song could well lead to more and eventually the band may release another EP.

You can listen to the song here:

Listen to it on Bandcamp if you can't see it above.

The lyrics are as follows:

Dripping language finessed to remove the distressed from their pants
Lay in wait fascist seeds when you need a ride home from the dance
And you're making me laugh with that neck of giraffe on your plate
Rotten roast you're the toast my election night host and my date
Oh
Turn all the lights down low

Well philosophy's fine and it's right for the times that's for sure
And a flexible spine is the look to unhook any door
But it's ever so hard for the grownups to stop chasing votes
Complicated big world for the people who come here on boats
Oh
Turn all the lights down low

Always up in the night getting fit for a fight i can't win
And the sweet Labor right so polite with a kick to the shin
Oh,the advantage of height in a person so slight is not wise
How i crave, how i crave some integrity, save me from lies
And when you think that they've loved you all that they can, no no no
Oh
Turn all the lights down low

Snout play the Corner Hotel next week.