We present to you dear consumer this power trio from an outfit regarded among the ForestRoxxters as a painfully underappreciated bunch of dudes making some tight & heady abstract shit. The title track "We Shoot For The Moon" is one of those truly great joie de vivre numbers.
Sip & Savor...
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Allmusic Bio: Loved by those who were lucky to hear them, Slovenly formed when Saccharine Trust drummer Rob Holzman put together the band Slovenly Peter after his departure from Trust in 1981. The "Peter" was eventually dropped, and the band released its debut on the Minutemen's New Alliance label in 1985. That debut, After the Original Style, was quickly overshadowed by the band's next three releases, the well-received Thinking of Empire (1986), Riposte (1987), and We Shoot for the Moon (1989). Having switched to SST, the band had put together a mélange of sounds ranging from the Fall and Wire to the Red Crayola and Captain Beefheart. Their final release, 1992's Highway to Hanno's, was also released by SST. After that, bassist Scott Ziegler, drummer Rob Holzman, and guitarist/vocalist Tom Watson formed Overpass and released two albums as such.
4 comments:
Slovenly was one of the best and least known bands. Peeps should know about them...
I've always found Thinking of Empire their weakest; too bad it seems to be the one most people bought when checking out SST artists was the thing to do.
We Shoot for the Moon, After the Original Style and Riposte are my 1-2-3, followed by the Even So EP.
highway to hanno's. all the way.
I agree with G(avin?) Friday. Thinking of Empire is weak. Riposte was the record that started to show a band shaking of the most apparent influences. "Enormous critics" is an obvious example. Slovenly reached their peak with "She was Bananas" from "We shoot for the moon". The musical, slightly jazzy, interlude in that song gave an early advance into the postrock area. The "Abernathy" single also had one or two excellent tracks.
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