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"BAND OF THE WEEK ... This Long Island band calling themselves Slothbear are not that slow, in fact these guys make some pretty fast paced, scuzzed out music. This fits right in with the sound of the moment, either by necessity or because they want to. I'm not quite sure which one it is... This isn't the brutal assault of all the lo-fi/no-fi bands of the moment, this is earnest songwriting with a deficient recording budget. Their latest song, "No Dialogue", shows what can happen when they have some-fi. The song rages at the outset, awash in sharp guitar riffs and steady rhythms before giving way to some sweeter sounding vocals. It shows a band that can write a song and make it stick in your craw."
-- Pop Tarts Suck Toasted
" ...Slothbear make noisy, caustic pop songs with more catchiness – and treble – than you could shake a stick at. Since yesterday I've been pretty stuck on them and songs like "The Exceptional Bastards" and "You Make Me Choose You" are so instantly infectious and, well, I don't know, they're just really really good. I wouldn't be surprised if Slothbear were picked up by Siltbreeze in some time soon."
-- Skatterbrain!
"Apparently the band are still unsigned. If only I had a label."
-- Burning World
"... six tracks of seriously lo-fi fuzzed up slop pop that have enough spark of genius to suggest mega cult status beckons."
-- The Devil Has The Best Tuna
"i love when people send over shit with nothing other than a few mp3’s and a few sentences. such is the case with sloth bear. no individual band member names, no myspace page, no album title, nothing… just, and i am paraphrasing, hey we are sloth bear, we recorded this in our basement on a 4 track, blah blah blah. i appreciate that they didnt send me to myspace or some other bullshit. instead, they sent over 6 tracks of what turned out to be pure fuzzed out pop bliss complete with barely decipherable lyrics. that shit gets me every time, in all seriousness."
-- Captain's Dead
"Oh baby ... you gots to listen to some Slothbear."
-- Gimme Tinnitus
"My favorite performance of the night consisted of five Slothbear classic hits. The first song, 'Don't Taunt a Tiger' urged the people in from far and wide, captivating its listeners. The vocals switched off between frontmen and there was a lovely eclectic use of drumsticks as guitar picks. The guitars blended together incredibly with each other and with the note-worthy drumming backing the boys up. The whole band was totally in sync without much of an effort. Their last song, 'Olio/D Jam' could have lasted forever and I'm sure nearly everyone (coughSBUfacultycough) would have been okay with it, except that one of their frontmen looked as though he might have been having a seizure."
-- Stony Brook Press
"They ain’t crap"
-- Bad Luck City
"Painful to listen to."
-- Joe Brockhaus
"slothbear is a bunch of dune coons"
-- Anonymous
"not ready for IGIF, sry."
-- Nathaniel XC
"Es näselt, schmettert, brummt und dröhnt! Und alles, ohne dabei aggressiv zu werden. Slothbear haben die LoFi-Masche für ihren Indie-Rock konsequent durchgezogen und zotteln wie der Lippenbär, nach dem sie sich benannt haben, sonderbar, aber trotzdem liebenswert durch die Gegend.
Zugegebenermaßen: Am Anfang ist diese EP kaum hörbar! Man hält das für reinen Krach und hört keine System heraus. Man wird sich an den verstimmten Gitarren stören, und an Stellen, wo der Gesang doch übertrieben laut ist! Vielleicht wird sich einem dieser Sound, den die Band da an den Tag legt, nie erschließen. Aber vielleicht beginnt man auch, auf die Songs zu hören und den Sound als Teil des Ganzen zu sehen!
Der Sound der in New York lebenden Guppe, die die Songs auf dieser EP mit einem kaputten vierspurigen Tonbandgerät aufgenommen hat,ist einer der konsequent schlechtesten/besten (zutreffendes ankreuzen) in der Netaudioszene. Die Songs wiederum entpuppen sich bei näherer Betrachtung als süße kleine Indie-Juwelen mit schönen Gitarrenparts. Außer in "You Make Me Choose You" (sozusagen die "Ballade" dieser EP) wird ordentlich riffgerockt, nach vorne geprescht und getrommelt.
Irgendwie schafft es diese Band gerade mit ihrem kaputten Sound auch, sich koplett vom Einheitsbrei abzuheben und im Kopf hängen zu bleiben. Diese Perle aus dem 2008 aus dem Boden gestampften Netlabels Rack&Ruin ist auf jeden Fall den Download und die Zeit die es braucht, wert!"
-- Stubenrocker
"Heard your band on MySpace - hated it."
-- My Hot TA
the songs you may be hearing were recorded on a broken four track with no microphones. big ups to our zoocratic brethren and all animals everywhere."
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***if you'd like a cd-r, message us here or email us at the address above. each one comes in unique packaging & hand-drawn artwork, a personalized letter, and batty inserts. neato!
^^^WE OWE A LOT OF PEOPLE THESE AND WE'RE SENDING THEM OUT AS WE TYPE BUT IF YOU ARE IMPATIENT OR DO NOT TRUST SOME CLODS ON THE INTERNET THE EP IS AVAILABLE HERE 4 FREE:
http://rackandruinrecords.com/artists/slothbear.php
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