The Slip
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About
Jim James (of My Morning Jacket) tripped over The SLIP recently at one of their avant art-rock shows and told the New York Times about it:
"Seeing them live was amazing...I instantly felt a bond with these three guys. You see so many tired, boring rock acts doing the same thing over and over, but these guys are reaching out...They're taking what we know of music and trying to twist it to a different place." - Jim James, Sunday NYTimes, July 2, 2006
There is something impossible about The SLIP. Something humble and heroic, hard and tender, soft and monstrous. Certain people agree: The SLIP have brought the epic back to rock with their new record EISENHOWER.
Two brothers and a childhood friend, the three met in the halls of high school and immediately fell in together, later dropping out of college and heading off - criss-crossing the country, flying back and forth to Japan (where they developed a strong bond with cult superstar UA), and making lots of new friends and fans along the way. These days, when not touring or busy in the recording studio, Brad, Andrew and Marc can be found roaming the streets of Boston or Montreal, enjoying a cafe from the local barista, catching a film at the moviehouse or reading quietly in the park.
Brad Barr is the band's core songwriter and one of the great rock guitarists of his generation. He is also looking to join an adult softball league. Brad is the troubadour who..s absorbed it all, from Blonde on Blonde to Bitches Brew. He has the ability to do almost anything on six strings, yet consistently plays with taste, context and humility, understanding the awesome power of three chords and a simple melody to bring people in.
Marc Friedman is mission control on bass guitar, the foundation keeping it all together. He brings the wide-ranging and eclectic interests - from Gershwin to Madonna - that result in many of the trio's most enduring arrangements, as well as many of the high-concept production elements on Eisenhower. Marc brings the nutmeg and the cinnamon. He's the virtuoso who has literally invented new ways of playing his instrument yet also represents the band..s brick wall; constant and comprehensive in his support.
Andrew Barr is the engine and the source of the band..s chaos and primal energy, often forgetting where he put his shoes, and dreaming up elaborate beats that tell real stories. Andrew's drum parts are practically their own complete songs, adding thunder and lightning to the intimacy of a heartbeat. He rocks like Bonham and listens like your best friend.
Which brings us to the new record that these three have just completed. After drilling deep within their home studios over the almost five years since their last studio release, the band finally entered the illustrious Q-Division Studios in Boston to create a stunning new album that brings adventure, daring, and honest songwriting back to the annals of rock. The band's first release for Bar/None Records, this is music that points to the future, synthesizing older influences like The Beatles, Bach, and Led Zeppelin while also engaging in a current dialogue with the likes of Built to Spill, Iron & Wine and Wilco.
Co-produced by the band and the dapper Matthew Ellard (Elliot Smith, Billy Bragg & Wilco, Morphine) and with additional engineering by good friend and fellow Montrealien Drew Malamud (Stars, Metric, The Dears), EISENHOWER easily stands as the most cohesive and evocative work The SLIP has released to date.
The album kicks off with "Children of December" and right away you can tell that something truly powerful and new is happening. Percussive vocal delivery over just four punchy chords that erupts unexpectedly into far-flung choruses and then backs out just as quickly - It..s a holiday song for no season in particular, a jump-up, generational anthem for the yesteryears of tomorrow. " 'Children of December" is the song that hit me hardest,.. adds Jim James, ..the way the guitar and the melody interlace, it's incredible...It could even appeal to some kid who really likes punk rock. It's really challenging... Immediately following is "Even Rats" - a super-charged, arena-rock racecar for your impersonal post-apocalypse. Hook-laden, and complete with politically-charged and ambiguous lyrics, the track has already been featured in Sony Playstation's top-selling "Guitar Hero" video game, and in doing so has introduced the band to a massive new crop of fans worldwide.
From then on, the record only pulls you further and further in, ranging effortlessly from intimate, hushed vocals to thunderous, big-beat anthem sincerity, all the while telling a single intense and meaningful story. Massive Lennon-esque ballads give way to angular post-punk deconstructions and gently transition into intimate acoustic lullabies. Virtuosic surf-rock intros drift seamlessly into dusty, epic, headphone Americana...all of this, and yet, somehow, the story is never lost, it all ends up making sense. It is the work of a band at it..s finest: a new paradigm in wide-awake rock-realism. We are so pleased to bring you EISENHOWER.
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Chart Toppers
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Discography
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Albums
| Year | Title | Label |
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| 1997 | From the Gecko | Ka Records |
The debut album by the trio from Providence, released in 1997 on the band's own record label imprint, Ka Records. Largely lyrical, the album serves as a reference point for this trio. A favorite of many fans, songs on this album are often requested and rarely played. From the Gecko features guest saxophonists Timo Shanko, Daisuke Fujiwara and Gus Zeising.
Track Listing: 1) Munf 2) Alsoa 3) Yellow Medicine 4) The Weight of Solomon 5) Spice Groove 6) Cumulus 7) Eube 8) Children of Atlantis 9) The Island of Peace 10) Honey Melon 11) Entering Saugus
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| 2000 | Does | Flying Frog Records |
Does, the sophomore album by The Slip, was released in 2000 on Flying Frog Records. This album features a combination of vocal tracks and instrumentals. The tunes were recorded with very little added production- producing a raw sound. A wide spectrum of songwriting was employed- complex lyrical journeys, simplified Americana, traditional jazz trio song forms and even shorter, fragmented ideas. Highly acclaimed jazz engineer Joe Ferla mixed all the tracks.
Track Listing: 1) Catacea 2) So Dope 3) Paint Cans 4) Invocation 5) Johnny's Tune 6) When Cloudy Hushes Moon 7) A Crack In The Sundial 8) Hallway 9) My Room 10) Hey Worrier 11) Tohu Bohu 12) Rhythm And Gold 13) S'Debatable 14) Through The Iron Gate
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| 2002 | Angels Come on Time | Ryko |
Recorded in a Barn and a firehouse, Angels features vocal tunes 'Sometimes True to Nothing' and 'Tinderbox' as well as favorite instrumentals 'Get Me With Fuji', NPR-staple 'Sorry', and the classic 'Nellie Jean.'
Track Listing: 1) Landing 2) Get Me With Fuji 3) Sometimes True To Nothing 4) Sorry 5) Tinderbox 6) Love And Tears 7) The Nashua Rose 8) Stomping Grounds 9) (Take A) Beetle To The Badlands 10) Jumby 11) 6-Sided 12) Nellie Jean
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Live Releases
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| 2003 | Alivelectric | 216 Records |
Alivelectric is almost exclusively instrumental, culled from a wide array of performances throughout the U.S. during the fall of 2002 and the summer and spring of 2003, Alivelectric gave 216 a chance to showcase the band at its grander, more expansive and ethereal live moments. The album presents an articulated side of The SLIP much closer to Explosions in The Sky, Tortoise, electric Bill Frisell and Squarepusher albums than the dusty americana present on it’s companion release.
Track Listing: 1. The Earth Will Dissever and Consume You After These Messages 2. Introductions 3. Headshot 4. Mr. Meowskers 5. Happy Snails 6. Song 7. Interlude 8. If One of us Should Fall 9. Build For Zeal 10. Driving Backwards With You 11. Ashland
| Year | Title | Label |
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| 2003 | Aliveacoustic | 216 Records |
Forming one-half of the companion live set that was the inaugural release from the band's own label, 216 records, Aliveacoustic presents a rustic and intimate, voyeuristic snapshot of the band unplugged on a rainy night at Club Helsinki in the Berkshire Mountains. Equal parts Let it Bleed, King Oliver, and 11 Golden Country Hits-era Ween, the album contains a tender honesty that carries through from tent-revival stomps to dusty lyrical psalms.
Track Listing: 1. Poor Boy 2. 74 3. Before You Were Born 4. Hunny 5. Torque 6. Let the Morning In 7. Song 8. Through the Iron Gate 9. Lion On A Rock
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