Sneaks – ‘Happy Birthday’ review: an experiment in sound that fits and starts (but never gets boring)
“I’m not underrated / I’m not overrated / I’m just slightly sophisticated,” Eva Moolchan deadpans amid experimental synth whirrs and scything beats on ‘Slightly Sophisticated’, the sixth track on her uncompromising fourth album, which continues the odyssey into oddball dance-pop that began with last year’s ‘Highway Hypnosis’. The message: she’s a best-kept secret musical outlier not waiting to be ‘discovered’, but content doing her own weird thing.Moolchan emerged from the Washington DC alternative scene under her Sneaks moniker with 2016 debut album ‘Gymnastics’, comprised of spit-and-sawdust bass and drums and her distinctive, sardonic sing-song delivery.