Beside your oldness
Beyond words and measure
I marvel at your strength
I marvel at your dignity
SNEERS. treat the body as a suspect instrument: a vessel for appetite, prayer, revulsion, and endurance. On Mothers & Others, from the duo’s latest record, (Don’t Quit Before) The Miracle—released on vinyl and in digital format via Manchester-based label God Unknown Records—that body grows old before our ears. M. Greta Blaankart sings as though the voice has become a brittle room, her performance taking on the wheezing death rattle of a dying matriarch. It carries the tremor of an elderly woman, the dry lift of someone summoning strength from a chair, a kitchen table, a bed, a doorway.
The song turns aging away from abstraction and toward domestic detail. Its subject is care, but care rendered without decorative softness. The lyrics gather around the ordinary miracles of answering the phone, remaining available, staying home, and offering love without judgment. These gestures, on paper, could seem plain. Blaankart gives them the gravity of survival. Her phrasing bends around each line as though time itself has made the throat uneven, and that unevenness becomes the point: affection here depends on bodies that falter, memories that blur, and days that must be repeated because repetition is how the living are kept alive.
Leon’s video extends that idea with severe tenderness. An aged maternal figure performs small tasks, again and again, until routine begins to resemble fate. The actions appear almost emptied of purpose, then gradually regain meaning through duration. A hand moves, a body rises, a chore continues. The clip finds sacrifice in the plain machinery of daily life, especially the kind undertaken by women whose labor is usually absorbed into walls, meals, washed fabric, and silence. The maternal presence becomes animal, sacred, exhausted, and persistent, closer to birth than biography.
Watch the video for Mothers & Others below:
SNEERS. is a woman-led music project spearheaded by Italian singer and guitarist M. Greta Blaankart with drummer Leonardo O. Stefenelli. Initially formed in Berlin and later moving to Rome, the duo crafts a sinister, hallucinatory expedition into human despair, driven by the raw emotional power of Blaankart’s lyrics.
Their work, characterized by blood-soaked poetry and luminous melancholia, pays tribute to spirituality and guilt. SNEERS.’s exploration of heaven and hell is documented in their 2018 studio album *Heaven Will Rescue Us, We’re the Scum, We’re in the Sun*, which features Kristof Hahn of Swans on lap-steel guitar. They also collaborated with Freddie Lee of Father Murphy on *Tales for Violent Days* in 2022. After four years of silence, SNEERS. returned with renewed intensity on (Don’t Quit Before) The Miracle, produced by Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu.
The album was preceded by To My Serpent, You, which was released on March 6, 2026. Its first single was a haunting, cinematic track that featured eerie vocals, sparse percussion, and built up to a powerful crescendo. Leon, who has managed the project’s visual style from the start, also created a minimalist video for it.
Speaking about the record, SNEERS. explains:
“(Don’t Quit Before) The Miracle presents itself, starting from its very title, as a metaphor for human existence, centered on the anticipation of an epic turning point capable of giving meaning to life. One becomes lost in a belief that gradually weakens, almost fading away, leaving room for resignation. Yet it is precisely at this moment that one must not retreat: it becomes necessary to rediscover the spirit of younger days, with a mother’s strength, to shed one’s skin like snakes, and to follow a current of hope. Even when the only hope left is that of a miracle.”
Listen to Mothers & Others below and order (Don’t Quit Before) The Miracle here.
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