Slight of Build are a noisepop/shoegaze/indie/psychadelic band from Melbourne. Simultaneously graceful, violent, stylish, destructive, adorable, rugged, charming, volatile, desirable, drunken, elegant, dangerous, beautiful...
"Slight of Build are just as at home playing slightly-askew wall-of-guitar space-out jams as they are taking sweeter, more downbeat detours. If you want to get ridiculously trite about it, it hits like Sonic Youth, but it tastes like the Morning After Girls. But being trite about it is so easy, and these songs deserve better than that. Cinematic wig outs always do. As casual listener 3 observed to me, it's like "they can't gaze at their shoes because their guitars are in the way". Which is cool, they've got a great sensibility about themselves; they lie in between two worlds and the pull Slight of Build feel from either direction creates some great sonic tension"- Beat Magazine EP Review
"The title track starts things off and ticks all the boxes for a classic hazy anthemic single. Deserts, driving and dawn lyrical references abound, the guitars squall and shock at all the right moments and vocalist/guitarist Paul Hornsby sounds gritty and heartsick enough to back his narrative of insomniac escape. It’ll be the soundtrack to some aspiring guitarist’s 2009 highlight reel that’s for sure. ‘Burn It To The Ground’ sits second, occupying a similar aural landscape of opiate drone as Sonic Youth’s ‘JC’. Full marks to drummer Andrew Polydorou and Adam Shirley on production for actually pulling the depth-charge sonics off – it ends up as an eerie half-remembered glimpse at late-night terrors from the safety of the morning...the darkness suits them well. ‘All Eyes Down’ is set as the epic closer and it succeeds, even if it feels like it prematurely concludes". - Mess&Noise EP Review
For those who haven't heard Slight of Build, I'd highly recommend a visit...Their show was impressive, mixing MBV shoegaze influence with Sonic Youth electric angst. I really enjoyed the sound, and will definitely make an effort to keep tabs on what the band are doing". - Drone Magazine
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