Add This to Rhetoric, by Wingtip Sloat

Add This to Rhetoric

by Wingtip Sloat

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1.	M31 01:50	buy track
2.	Turbine Mother 02:53	buy track
3.	Aspermical 02:09	buy track
4.	Blessed Nimbus, Churning 02:23	buy track
5.	Teapot Dome 03:15	buy track
6.	Mass Fucking in the Haystacks 03:02	buy track
7.	They Came With Margarine and In-Laws 02:56	buy track
8.	It Reminds Me 03:29	buy track
9.	Nada Dry Lemo 02:37	buy track
10.	I Wish I'd Been There to Make it a Cliche 02:16	buy track
11.	Kill the Klansmen 01:33	buy track
12.	Full Vamka 01:08	buy track
13.	Um Ba Winga (Um Ba Go) 00:55	buy track
14.	You're Happier Than You Realize 01:12	buy track
15.	Purple Martini 00:35	buy track
16.	Pit Caple Castle 01:14	buy track
17.	Black Motorist 01:17	buy track
18.	Infectious Sharps Only 02:50	buy track
19.	Beauty 02:17	buy track
20.	The Bed Pot 04:14	buy track
21.	Left Leaning Forward 01:41	buy track
22.	Ashcan School 03:43	buy track
23.	Salt Rising Bread 03:50	buy track
24.	Holding, Waiting 02:19	buy track
25.	Waxing Neurotic and So On and On 04:18	buy track
26.	Bob Howe 02:18	buy track
27.	I'm on the Wrong Side 03:35	buy track
28.	Leap into My Velvet Arms 04:33	buy track
29.	Read About Seymour 01:25	buy track
30.	Anything Could Happen 02:36	buy track

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Long planned (and frequently delayed) restoration of this Virginia trio's rare and out of print singles and compilation tracks from the early 90's. All 30 tracks make their first appearance on CD/digital here, restoring two of the earliest vhf titles to print, along with a wealth of other impossible to find gems. Covering their most active years, "Add This to Rhetoric" captures Sloat at their baffling, fragmentary best, dealing out slashing rock sides that bristle with hooks and ear-catching weirdness. Sloat's superbly packaged, handmade/homemade singles were among the finest of their era, and although they appear here on a plain ol' download/CD, the music still sounds as revelatory as it did 15 years ago. Rifling through ideas with Wire-like efficiency, Pat Foster's trebly, jabbing guitar, Ange Dubuc's rumbling bass, and Dave Bishop's unpredictable drum splatter carried the charge that pretty much invented the VHF label itself. Wearing their influences on their sleeves, the album includes smashing covers of key tracks by the Clean, Tall Dwarfs, Sun City Girls, and World of Pooh.

credits

released September 12, 2018

1-4 from Wingtip Sloat 7" EP, May 1991, Sweet Portable Junket 003
5-17 from Half Past I've Got 2x7" EP, July 1992, SPJ 008/vhf#2
18-21 from Return of the Night of the Ardent Straggler 7" EP, April 1993, vhf#10
22-26 Wingtip Sloat demo, recorded May 1990
27 from Happy Boy Margarine EP, accompanying Bananafish issue #8, November 1993
28 from Why Do You Think They Call it Pop? 2x10" EP, Pop Narcotic Records 006, March 1994
29 from Split 7" EP w/Rake
30 from User Friendly Bowl Wrapper cassette, SPJ 005, September 1991

Sloats: Dave Bishop/Andy Dubuc/Patrick Foster 1-21, 27-29
Sloats: Dave Bishop/Andy Dubuc/Patrick Foster/Brad Maylor 22-26, 30
Words and Music by Wingtip Sloat, except 11 (Sun City Girls), 19 (Bathgate/Knox), 27 (Barbara Manning), 29 (Swell Maps), 30 (The Clean)
25 - Words by Stephen Healey

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