Pre-Order Pastime Gardens from Grabbing Clouds

Slushy’s debut long-player Pastime Gardens is now available for pre-order from Grabbing Clouds Records & Tapes! The first 100 come on a clear-with-blue-haze vinyl that is super awesome to look at and hear at!

Pastime Gardens was recorded by the cloud man himself, Matt Riley, and mixed and mastered by Shimby McCreery (Five Little Leaves). Snag one today at grabbingclouds.bigcartel.com.
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Announcing “Pastime Gardens”

Slushy is extremely excited to announce the release of our debut LP, Pastime Gardens, being birthed into this world April of 2014 on Chicago imprint Grabbing Clouds Records & Tapes!

Pastime Gardens is the best representation to date of Slushy’s two-piece sound. Taking the direct-to-tape approach heard on the Candy / Pocket single and adding in the wall of sound of Five Little Leaves, Pastime Gardens is a non-stop gooey goodness, the intersecting Venn diagram of maximalness and minimalness. It’s noisy and weird in all the right ways and none of the wrong ones.

The album was recorded by Grabbing Clouds head honcho Matt Riley on his Tascam 388, and mixed and mastered by Shimby McCreery, who previously worked with Slushy on “Five Little Leaves”. The album art is by Adam Pezen, with an insert featuring the artwork of Kriss Stress.

Pastime Gardens Track List

1. Now I Need You
2. Summertime Girls
3. Montanaro
4. So Happy
5. Good Luck Charm
6. She’s Going Away Now
7. Run Wild
8. Little Heart
9. Television
10. Round & Round
11. Fun in the Sun
12. Teenage Frankenstein
13. Done with Fun
14. Reverberations

Update: Some of these songs are pretty good! Email me if you want a copy, I still have a few left!

“Five Little Leaves” Cassettes Now Available

The newest Slushy release is now available for you to get your hands all over. Chicago’s Tripp Tapes is the lucky label that gets to release “Five Little Leaves” a collection of older tunes and fan faves that will make your head spin and heart explode. A limited edition of 100 super-duper pro-looking-and-sounding cassettes has been produced (featuring artwork by GOON$),and are sure to sell like hot birthday cakes.

Recorded with Shimby “Live at the Empty Bottle” McCreery, “Five Little Leaves” turns Slushy minimalist, lo-fi rock’n’roll on its head. Featuring drums from The Sleepovers’ Doug Boldon and backing vocals from The Bing-Aires, these five songs are full-on power-pop, doo-wop, doncha-stop action. Fans of The Soft Boys, Flamin’ Groovies, and The Modern Lovers need to score this tape today.

You can now order the “Five Little Leaves” cassette with an immediate digital download from the Slushy bandcamp page, as well as Chicago’s finer record stores.

Fun fact! We did these recordings intending to release three different 7-inch records with three different labels, but no one we sent the tunes to ever got back to us so I paid my pal in Florida to make some tapes and slapped the Tripp Tapes name on it without telling James in advance! Sorry about that, James!

Double fun fact! There are actually 6 songs on the tape, and it’s my mom’s favorite tape even though it has “I Want To Die Young” on it. Sorry about that, mom!

Candy / Pocket 7″ now available from Randy Records

After months of anticipation, Chicago’s Randy Records has released the debut single from Slushy, “Candy” b/w “Pocket”.

You can order the single directly from Randy Records. The first 50 orders through the Randy site come with white/orange/pink splattered vinyl.

There’s also a super-duper limited edition version that features artwork from GOONS.

These are hand-numbered out of 50. They can be ordered on the Slushy bandcamp page.

“Candy” is one of the first songs that Slushy ever played. It’s a song about tossing and turning when your mind won’t slow down. The version on the single is different from the version we performed on Chic-a-Go-Go, but man is it good, too. Nathan got a rawer sound that’s more true to our live set-up.

“Pocket” is the B-side but it’s the secret hit. It’s a song about having adorable friends. It was only half-written when we went to record, so we faked our way through it, and it turned out great. That solo was done live and it’s not too shabby.

The single was recorded by Nathan Johnson in Randy’s Garage and mixed by Joe Montanaro. Photos by Brian Shanely, Slushy logo by Adam Pezen, Goons by Goons, layout by Slushy.