Slang - Cockroach In A Ghost Town

 

Deep Purple vinyl LP!

Debut album from Slang

Slang's debut Cockroach In A Ghost Town is a force of nature that came, seemingly, out of nowhere. Lyricist/singer/guitarist Drew Grow and drummer/singer Janet Weiss started the band more than a decade ago in Portland, Oregon — 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 such as 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.

In their first iteration as a duo, Slang hammered the Everly Brothers inside-out; they put a keen new light on songs by the Traveling Wilburys and Jackson C. Frank — setting out to harmonize together and just play. 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.

Side A

1. Wilder

2. King Gunn

3. Hit The City

4. In Hot Water

5. Time Bomb

Side B

1. Wrong Wrong Wrong

2. Chipped Tooth

3. Cockroach In A Ghost Town

4. My #1

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