Wingtips
* Wingtip Sloat: Teapot Dome (7.5 mb) | Infectious Sharps Only (6.5 mb) | Waxing Neurotic And So On And On (10.0 mb)
From Add This To Rhetoric : VHF Records : vhf#57
Wow! It’s always an awesome feeling to rediscover bands that I’d forgotten about, but really loved at the time. Wingtip Sloat bring me way back, more than ten years ago, when I had the good fortune to pick up this awesome zine, Tuba Frenzy. I stumbled upon this magazine when it came out and probably bought it because it included a split 12″ LP with Trans Am contributing one of the tracks. Wingtip Sloat, who I had no clue about, had the flip side.
I remember putting on the LP when I got home and really liking the Trans Am side. In fact, it was probably a good while before I finally flipped it over to listen to Wingtip Sloat. But once I did, it never really left. The Wingtip Sloat songs really blew my mind. There was a fantastic, totally cacophonous sound that almost made sense to me. They also had a pretty unique, anti-careerism side to them that really appealed to me. Unfortunately, I couldn’t track down any of their other releases, so they kind of fell to the wayside.
So, I was super excited to find out that this compilation of singles and compilation tracks.
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. (VHF Records)
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