SLANG – “COCKROACH IN A GHOST TOWN”
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE
Slang’s debut album Cockroach in a Ghost Town hits—a physical force of nature that comes from, seemingly, out of nowhere. Lyricist/singer/guitarist Drew Grow and drummer/singer Janet Weiss started the band over a decade ago in Portland, OR—both having spent more than half their lives dedicated to making and performing music. Through the years, Weiss has played with everyone from her bands Quasi, Wild Flag, and Sleater-Kinney, to collaborators like Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus, and others; Grow has fronted his own groups Modern Kin and the Pastors’ Wives, producing other bands along the way. Starting as a moonlighting collaboration, the meeting of this particular group was kismet if not totally cosmic. Following a homespun two-song cassette, the band grew to include Kathy Foster (Roseblood, The Thermals) on bass and Anita Lee Elliot (Viva Voce) on guitar/vocals—with record appearances made by Sam Coomes (Quasi), Stephen Malkmus (Pavement), Mary Timony (Helium, Ex Hex, Wild Flag) and others.
ARTIST QUOTE
Starting again
If you survive, you are the one who wakes up the next morning
and surveys the room, the landscape
what is lost
what is left, what remains
after..
with just your own hands,
your belief, your vision, your body
and the work in front of you
Makes for wild dreams
Archetypes appearing with messages
From the deep
a wise old tune gets cranked out of the black box of cells and DNA
On that morning here is no nike there is no jesus-the-cupcake, no believable lies
just these hands
and the day rising all on its own
Slang
[Single/Video]
(Kill Rock Stars)
Release Date: April 6, 2022
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