Audit in Progress

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Audit in Progress
Studio album by
Hot Snakes
ReleasedOctober 5, 2004
Recorded2004
StudioBig Fish Recorders (San Diego, CA)
Genre
Length33:26
LabelSwami
ProducerJohn Reis
Hot Snakes chronology
Suicide Invoice
(2002) 		Audit in Progress
(2004)
Peel Sessions

(2005)

Audit in Progress is the third studio album by the

Rocket From the Crypt. In comparison to the band's previous albums, Audit in Progress is more aggressive and primal.[1][2] Audit in Progress would be Hot Snakes' final studio album until 2018's Jericho Sirens, as the members decided to disband following a tour of Australia in Spring 2005 (though Thunder Down Under
, a live-in-the-studio album recorded during the tour, was released posthumously in 2006).

Artwork

As a visual artist and illustrator singer/guitarist Rick Froberg provided the album's artwork, while Reis released the album through his Swami Records label. It was the first Hot Snakes release to feature drummer Mario Rubalcaba, brought in to fill the position left vacant by original drummer Jason Kourkounis.

Promotion

At this time the band was able to tour much more extensively than they had in support of previous albums, travelling the

Peel Sessions EP
the following year the proposed single was cancelled.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Popmatters
[6]
Record Collector[1]
SpinA[11]
StylusB+[8]
Tiny Mix Tapes[7]

Initial

The album was well received by critics and fans. Joseph Larkin called it "the most ferocious record in the Hot Snakes discography, [it] rarely lets up [and] pummels without mercy."[2] Spin noted the album's "loud, throttling punk-rock elegance" and compared it to Drive Like Jehu.[11] The latter comparison was again made by Nick Cowen, noting that despite replacing their original drummer: "the Hot Snakes manifesto remains “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Not bad for a band playing some of the most blistering punk rock around." Brian Howe was slightly less positive, citing the aforementioned replacement as one of the reasons: "While Rubalcaba is a proficient percussionist possessed of a distinct style, his crisper, more rigid drumming simply doesn't mesh as well with Hot Snakes' metallic doom-rock guitars and monotone shout-alongs as Kourkounis's rumbling, primal pounding did. Audit in Progress remains sufficiently fierce, but sounds a little tinny when compared to the rippling muscles of 2002's Suicide Invoice."[4] Jean-Pierre of Tiny Mix Tapes called it "one of the finest albums of the 2004 [sic], hands down."[7]

Awards

Audit in Progress was named "best punk album" at the 2005 San Diego Music Awards.

In popular culture

"This Mystic Decade" was featured in the soundtrack of Grand Theft Auto V.[12]

Retrospective

The album received renewed critical attention upon being reissued. Nad Khan noted that on the album, "everything is cranked up a notch to quash any signs of complacency. Influences like

The Wipers and comparing it unfavorably to their previous releases.[1]

Track listing

All songs written by Hot Snakes

  1. "Braintrust" - 1:59
  2. "Hi-Lites" - 2:41
  3. "Retrofit" - 2:54
  4. "Kreative Kontrol" - 2:22
  5. "Think About Carbs" - 2:13
  6. "Audit in Progress" - 2:30
  7. "Hatchet Job" - 3:40
  8. "This Mystic Decade" - 3:03
  9. "Lovebirds" - 3:14
  10. "Reflex" - 3:03
  11. "Hair and DNA" - 2:30
  12. "Plenty for All" - 1:17

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b c "Automatic Midnight, Suicide Invoice, Audit In Progress - Record Collector Magazine". recordcollectormag.com.
  2. ^ a b "TrouserPress.com :: Hot Snakes". www.trouserpress.com.
  3. AllMusic
  4. ^ a b Pitchfork Media review Archived March 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Album Review: Hot Snakes - Audit In Progress". DrownedInSound. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06. Retrieved 2019-04-06.
  6. ^ "Hot Snakes: Audit in Progress". PopMatters. 23 June 2005.
  7. ^ a b "Music Review: Hot Snakes - Audit In Progress". Tiny Mix Tapes.
  8. ^ "Hot Snakes - Audit in Progress - Stylus Magazine".
  9. ^ a b Rock, Emma Johnston 2018-02-03T21:31:00 330Z Classic (3 February 2018). "Hot Snakes - Reissues album". Classic Rock Magazine.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ "Review".
  11. ^ a b LLC, SPIN Media (1 November 2004). "SPIN". SPIN Media LLC – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "Grand Theft Auto V: The official, final tracklist has been revealed". 2 October 2013.
  13. ^ "Hot Snakes - Discography Reissue (Sub Pop)". 16 January 2018.
  14. ^ "Hot Snakes Jericho Sirens". exclaim.ca.
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