Slow Dance Records launch their eighth annual new music compilation

Spread over a series of EPs over the course of January, the first instalment features new releases from New Jersey born HORNET, Lost Lyra, and the debut from LIPWORMS. Speaking of the song, vocalist/guitarist Chris Williamson says: “Handshake started out as a noisy 15 minute live jam. Disjointed acid house with guitar noise and distorted screams over the top. It still is, in a way, but condensing the song down helped us find the right balance. We like to think of it as the sound of the internet screaming.”

This year's edition represents the label's longest and most ambitious yet. Spanning 18 tracks, Slow Dance '23 returns to the ethos of bedroom recordings.

Featured this year are the likes of Cuckoo Spit, Plutoz Beach, Hank, Velvetine and Jesus and The Zealots, as well as feeo, Nukuluk founder Luke Kulunukis and GG Skips of Glows and Sorry who are releasing new solo material on the compilation.

Alumni of the compilation have gone on to sign and release with a plethora of labels from Ninja Tune, So Young, 4AD and Rough Trade. Its also notably given the first outings to bands and solo projects from black midi to,Black Country, New Road, from Otta, Goat Girl and Martha Skye Murphy to Drug Store Romeos, Sorry and Folly Group.

Tracklist:

1. More Than a Drunken Night - Plutoz Beach
2. Silkworm - HORNET
3. Handshake - LIPWORMS
4. My Father's Sheep is Dead - Milkweed
5. Blind - Something In the Lake
6. shrine - feeo
7. The Cuckoo Nest Breaks Under Your Heavy Step... - Cuckoo Spit
8. Pokes - FLOCO
9. 3/4 (home demo) - Hank
10. Jagged - Kulukundis
11. Supercolony - Lost Lyra
12. Hideaway - Velvetine
13. Out of Harm's Way - Gordian Stimm
14. Into the Grass - Jesus and the Zealots
15. end of the world - Piper Toohey
16. C_fe - DUNCE
17. Perfumed Nights - GG Skips
18. War, n.d - n.o Art Ensemble