Clash has shared a new remix of Slothrust’s single “Double Down” by mixer Willy Beaman. The band is preparing to embark on their first-ever headline tour of the UK and Europe, and has announced more US tour dates and three summer festivals. Check out the bands latest list of dates below.
Slothrust is principal songwriter, guitar player and unrepentant aesthete Leah Wellbaum, with drummer Will Gorin and bassist Kyle Bann. On their fourth full-length album The Pact, Slothrust constructs a luscious, ethereal cosmos perforated with wormy portals and magic wardrobes, demonstrating more clearly than ever the band’s deft shaping of contrasting sonic elements to forge a muscular sound that’s uniquely their own.
Bizarre and mundane, tender and confident. The awkward duality of the forever outsider, rightly reclaimed as power. This is The Pact. Produced and engineered by Billy Bush in Los Angeles (the band’s new home base), Slothrust’s new album is a cerebral trip across 12 songs that oscillate between a quietly reflective tenderness and a slick, sleek confidence; balancing playful innocence with ballsy swagger. “This is the most fun I’ve ever had making a record,” Wellbaum confirms. “We were able to take risks. I’m saying yes more than no these days.”
‘Double Down’ commands without cawing for attention – A lurching rock song with a subversive pop hook, ripped with screeching distortion that gives way to the chorus, an irreverent, emphatically cool takedown of all doubters.
Photo credit: Danny Lane
Tour Dates:
TUE 22 JAN – Glasgow, UK @ Stereo
WED 23 JAN – Manchester, UK @ Deaf Institute
THU 24 JAN – London, UK @ Boston Music Room
FRI 25 JAN – Brighton, UK @ The Hope & Ruin
SAT 26 JAN – Birmingham, UK @ Sunflower Lounge
MON 28 JAN – Paris, France @ Pop Up du Label
TUE 29 JAN – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg UP
WED 30 JAN – Cologne, Germany @ Blue Shell
THU 31 JAN – Hamburg, Germany @ Molotov Skybar
FRI 01 FEB – Berlin, Germany @ Privatclub
FRI 08 FEB – Syracuse NY @ Lost Horizon
SAT 09 FEB – Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar
WED 13 FEB – New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa
THU 14 FEB – Houston, TX @ The Satellite
FRI 15 FEB – Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
SAT 16 FEB – Austin, TX @ Barracuda
TUE 19 FEB – Albuquerque, NM @ Sister
THU 21 FEB – Tucson, AZ @ Cans Deli
FRI 22 FEB – Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
SAT 30 MAR – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
SUN 31 MAR – Sacramento, CA @ Holy Diver
TUE 02 APR – Boise, ID @ The Olympic
WED 03 APR – Spokane, WA @ The Bartlett
THU 04 APR – Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
FRI 05 APR – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
SAT 06 APR – Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
FRI 03 MAY – Atlanta, GA @ Shaky Knees Festival
FRI 10 MAY – Charlotte, NC @ Epicenter Festival
FRI 24 MAY – Napa, CA @ Bottlerock Festival
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