NAME: Slim Twig
GENRE: Musique concrète/Rockabilly
SOUNDS LIKE: Overdosing on mescaline whilst a very scratched vinyl of Sun Records classics skips from sound to sound.
LOCATION: Toronto, Canada.
LINE UP: Slim Twig.
WHAT’S THE STORY?: Slim Twig is the stage name of a guy named Max Turnbull, who plays in a handful of bands as well as performing his own solo music and occasionally appearing in films. Over the past 4 years he has amassed a sizeable and strong cult following and critical praise.
RELEASES: Spit It Twig! (Vol. 2) EP (digital download: show-released free CD, 2009),
Slim Twig Toronto/ Le Corbeau Oslo (split 7″ vinyl, Best of Both Records, 2009),
Contempt! LP (Paper Bag Records: 2009),
Spit It Twig! (Vol.1) EP (digital download: show-released free CD, 2009),
Derelict Dialect/Vernacular Violence LP (limited edition vinyl) (Paper Bag Records: 2008),
Vernacular Violence EP (Paper Bag Records: 2008),
Derelict Dialect EP (Paper Bag Records: 2008),
Whiite Fantaseee EP (self released: 2007),
Dissonant Folk EP (Aphonia Recordings: 2007),
Quilibrate split EP with Huckleberry Friends (self-released: 2006),
Livestock Burn (self released: 2005).
GIGS: All around the US and Canada.
THEY SAY: “Slim Twig is a man, not always a band. I’ve played with other musicians, and still do sometimes. But mostly I am one dude named Slim. But not in a bullshit confessional acoustic way.”
WE SAY: It isn’t possible to get more post-modern pop than this. Slim Twig creates a bewildering pastiche of early Rock’n'Roll and experimental noise art using modern production techniques to result in a truly original sound. Enough found-sound, dark ambience, and lack of traditional structure to be experimental. Enough twangy guitars, 50s samples, and slap back delay for rockabilly. There are obvious influences of Lou Reed, Nick Cave and other sombre, beyond genre artists; but in today’s new music culture there are very few like Slim.
YOU’LL LIKE THIS IF YOU LIKE: Unintelligible but razor-sharp lyrics, genre twisting, and occasionally having the shit scared out of you.
LINKS: Official Website // MySpace
- Howrd
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