Wingtip Sloat

Wingtip Sloat

Purge And Swell/The Lost Decade

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Wingtip Sloat’s slashing and arty post-punk sounds weirdly contemporary these days, so what better news than to have their first new music in almost twenty years! Purge And Swell is a 12-inch 45 RPM mini LP with ten new tracks, and is accompanied by a 76-minute bonus CD Lost Decade with thirty-one additional tracks. The 12-inch includes plenty of the trebly guitar blare and low-fi charm immediately familiar from the group’s classic early ’90s singles, backstopping winning and memorable tunes like “Stars Bailed Out” and “Gizzard Jett.” The bonus CD includes bric-a-brac from the Sloat rehearsal room, with found poetry, perfect ninety-second rockers (the DC-specific “Cruisin’ The Ellipse”), confusing instrumental detours, and winsome covers of Eno, Dylan, Wire, Belle & Sebastian and more.

Wingtip Sloat

Add This To Rhetoric

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Long planned (and frequently delayed) restoration of this Virginia trio's rare and out of print singles and compilation tracks from the early 90's. All 30 tracks make their first appearance on CD here, restoring two of the earliest VHF titles to print, along with a wealth of other impossible to find gems. Covering their most active years, "Add This to Rhetoric" captures Sloat at their baffling, fragmentary best, dealing out slashing rock sides that bristle with hooks and ear-catching weirdness. Sloat's superbly packaged, handmade/homemade singles were among the finest of their era, and although they appear here on a plain ol' CD, the music still sounds as revelatory as it did 15 years ago. Rifling through ideas with Wire-like efficiency, Pat Foster's trebly, jabbing guitar, Ange Dubuc's rumbling bass, and Dave Bishop's unpredictable drum splatter carried the charge that pretty much invented the VHF label itself. Wearing their influences on their sleeves, the CD includes smashing covers of key tracks by the Clean, Tall Dwarfs, Sun City Girls, and World of Pooh. Booklet includes liner notes from the band and VHF HQ along with period ephemera for a full immersion experience.

Wingtip Sloat

Ardent

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Wingtip Sloat

Chewy Foot

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***Michael Bull at Caroline Records New York wins the Too Much Time On His Hands Anagram Invitational with "pilot wasting." We're sure that's not a Pavement rip, or anything, nuh-uh, no way. "The voices and guitars. . .surge as if these self-conscious suburban Virginia eclecticists are actually worked up about something." --Mark Jenkins, DC City Paper

Wingtip Sloat

If Only For The Hatchery

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Their first new work in almost three years, and a continuation of their highly fragmented rock and cryptic experimentation mercifully unaltered by the comings and goings of recent trends. An over-intellectualized mixture of the familiar and strange in equal parts, with a unique and personal vocal and instrumental personality. Go Sloat.