Slow - Against The Glass (Red Vinyl)

Slow - Against The Glass (Red Vinyl)It is almost impossible to over estimate the effect of Slow on Canadian music. Formed in the mid 80s in Vancouver, and releasing only one album and one 7" on Zulu Records, the band has consistently been called one of the most influential punk rock bands in Canada and forerunners of the Seattle grunge scene. Not bad for a band that recorded only eight songs. 2nd pressing on red vinyl!

Would you like to be arrested

‘positive punk’ and industrial

Shall We Go On Sinning… began life as an emotional response to the creeping rise of fascism around the globe

declaring that “no other musician in the modern era has moved so seamlessly between rock and jazz like Jeff Parker

or the sound of words

and “when we finally got around to talking about a new record

” is a very interesting anddramatic piece that is obviously different from contemporary synthpop from the era

whilst the two were sitting outside at a street café

Florian Fricke (1944 – 2001) was a German music pioneer who started his career in electronic music using the Moog synthesizer within the famous Krautrock group ‘Popol Vuh’

freshly remastered in 2014 by Joe Gastwirt for your pleasure

and also musicians

which often found Touré singing lyrics in a vernacular he did not understand