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	Slomo The Creep Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Pop, Rock Track Listings (1) - Disc #1 Creep "Uneasy, brooding, and honestly unsettling, this disc slowly works its way out of the speakers and into the psyche...it's impossible to put it down, lock it away, carry it to the street with the beer and Scotch bottles t... more » « less
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All Artists: Slomo
Title: The Creep
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Important Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 3/28/2006
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Pop, Rock
Styles: Ambient, Experimental Music
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 793447508528

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Album Description

"Uneasy, brooding, and honestly unsettling, this disc slowly works its way out of the speakers and into the psyche...it's impossible to put it down, lock it away, carry it to the street with the beer and Scotch bottles to be recycled. Inactivated, it defiantly surfaces in the cat's purr, the Volk's engine knocks [or] a fritzing hard drive." - DUSTED The Creep is one full-length track packaged in a deluxe Important Records gatefold cardboard jacket printed on both sides with two custom inserts by Slomo. Originally released on Julian Cope's Fuck Off And Di label in a limited edition of 100, The Creep sold out instantly. Since then, it's quickly gained massive underground status after being propped up by the likes of Sunn O))) and The Wire, who described it as such: "ghostly sounding and ominously rumbling with atmospheric threat, The Creep is an undeniably effective chunk of subterranean echo whose quaking aftershock could cause sleepless nights."

CD Reviews

Akin to a narcotized Earth or Black Boned Angel, but played

Aquarius Records | San Francisco | 04/01/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Could a band have a more perfect name? And an album a more perfect title? In this case, no. Slomo's The Creep is EXACTLY that. Creepy, creeping, slow motion music. One hour, one track, improvised and recorded live with minimal overdubs and "zero eye-contact" (it kinda sounds like it was recorded in total darkness, in fact). The ominous subterranean echoing seismic sounds of Slomo are the work of the UK's Chris McGrail and Howard Marsden. McGrail, as you might have guessed, is also the main guy behind heavy psych-dronesters Holy McGrail.

This heavy-lidded, cave-dwelling creature is a different, more somnolent beast, but if you liked that Holy McGrail disc I think you might like Slomo's The Creep too. It's something akin to a narcotized Earth or Black Boned Angel, but played with the spacious, quiet restraint of Bohren & Der Club Of Gore. The crunchy feedback on offer is both spooky and soothing.

Appropriately, the cd booklet contains an old rhyme on the subject of this duo's namesake, a folkloric character known as Slomo for his generally slow and slothful ways. The final line says of Slomo: "Whose detractors do call static... but whose champions call Ecstasis?" Clearly McGrail and Marsden are of hold to the latter opinion, as do I."