[Cover photo of David Thrussell in 2019]

Co-founded in 1989 by Australian musician David Thrussell and art school friends Tim McGrath and Julia Bourke, the band Snog have issued twenty albums and countless EPs/singles to date that have fused Synth-Pop, Electro-Industrial, Techno, Ambient and Experimental styles while also nodding to other genres.

Three key albums in the group’s early discography have just been remastered and reissued by Metropolis Records, starting with Dear Valued Customer (1994), their second full-length record and one that saw Pieter Bourke (later of Dead Can Dance and Lisa Gerrard’s solo group) join the core trio.

By the time of Buy Me… I’ll Change Your Life (1997), Snog was primarily a solo vehicle for Thrussell, who collaborated with guest musicians.

Third Mall From the Sun (1999) blended the styles of its predecessors while incorporating new influences. It was also the first Snog release to feature cover  imagery by Canadian artist Chris Woods, whose paintings lampoon the advertising tactics of major corporations such as McDonald’s, Gap and Nike, matching the strong anti-capitalist/consumerist/Big Brother sentiments in Thrussell’s songs.

Snog has continued to release albums regularly, the most recent being Eight Offerings For The Undead (2022) via Metropolis Records.