[WC2] SLOW TALK Treehouse Politics
Contains four exclusive new tracks.
Packaged with a striking 4-colour screen-print depicting a world where trees are blue and cats are green.
Slow Talk is Steven Ross.
Based in Oxford, Mississippi.
Screen Print Design by Micah Lidberg
Treehouse Politics
1. Fashion Sense
2. O Brother
3. Gun Fun
4. I Am No American
The new limited edition release from Warmest Chord includes a striking 4-colour screen print on Old Lady Grey paper courtesy of designer Micah Lidberg. Featuring a bleeding blue tree, the stamped and numbered screen prints are limited to just 100.
Included in the limited edition release Treehouse Politics is an immediate download of a 4-track EP from newcomer Slow Talk in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
Two tracks from the EP (Fashion Sense & O Brother) are available to download separately but the third and fourth tracks (Gun Fun & I Am No American) are only available with purchases of the screen print.
Each purchase of the limited edition Treehouse Politics release includes an exclusive mixtape lovingly cherry-picked by Slow Talk with musical delights including Ariel Pink, Sleigh Bells, Jeremy Jay, and Vic Chesnutt. You can also get an insight into the cavernous cranium and happenings behind Slow Talk with downloadable liner notes to boot.
About Slow Talk.
After two years in the making, Oxford Mississippi’s Steven Ross finally steps wide-eyed from his dorm room into the daylight clutching four songs that lay bare a soul in search of life’s bigger questions. Jaded and full of sardonic wit, Ross makes bold and uncensored music that confides what most of us would keep strictly under lock and key.
Staccato guitar and playful sounds cushion tales flooded with bitter acrimony. Schizophrenically changing pace from Pixie-esque sonic freakout to frenetic ‘on the brink of a nervous breakdown’ Bright Eyes. Ross spits out numbers as upbeat and singalong as their tone is black. His conversational vocals come from chords seemingly crosswired from the caverns of a darkened mind and the pulses of a misfiring aorta.
Always with a strong sense of narrative Ross exorcises his fear of growing up and older, waging a civil war against his own destiny with all the world-weary ‘make mine a double’ attitude a professional barfly would spend a lifetime perfecting. That he never loses the ability to keep his tongue firmly in his cheek arms the songs on Treehouse Politics with dozens of addictively sing-along lines.
Is it right to chase love? To grow a beard? Get high? How’s about wishing your friends dead whilst talking to God? All in the same night?! For the bittersweet sounding answers to these slice-of-life questions, Warmest Chord proudly presents ‘Treehouse Politics’, a deceptively upbeat collection of songs that capture the thrill of life’s chase, and the joy of being utterly and deeply lost.
Steven Ross photograph by Jane Anne Duddleston
