If Only for the Hatchery, by Wingtip Sloat

If Only for the Hatchery

by Wingtip Sloat

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1.	Z is for Zovirax 03:39	buy track
2.	Flem Snopes 02:02	buy track
3.	Sundowner's 90 Mile Pilot 02:52	buy track
4.	Part of Three 03:10	buy track
5.	Snack of Toes 02:48	buy track
6.	Take the Safeway Back 01:46	buy track
7.	Manmannouth 05:33	buy track
8.	(Interlude) 00:13	buy track
9.	Meet Cute 02:16	buy track
10.	Holiday Blowjob 05:44	buy track
11.	Banging the Hydrant 02:26	buy track
12.	Lemon Melt 01:52	buy track
13.	Whynilla 03:36	buy track

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The oddly titled If Only For The Hatchery was Wingtip Sloat's first new work in almost 3 years following 1995's Chewyfoot and found the boys fitter and "better recorded" than ever. 12 all new tracks and not a single throw-away (well, OK, maybe one but it's only 1 min long). Following on from their legendary early-90's singles, IOFTH finds the trio's blend of highly fragmented rock and cryptic experimentation mercifully unaltered by the comings and goings of recent trends. In the tradition of other over-intellectualizers Wire, Swell Maps, Tall Dwarfs, etc. Sloat mix the familiar and strange in equal parts, adding in unique instrumental and vocal personality. Charming and disarming, IOFTH contains lyrical and melodic tracks like "Sundowner's 90 Mile Pilot" alongside angular post-punk chargers like "Part Of Three" and makes the whole mess work. Really, this is right up their with their early singles in terms of fragmented art-damage and FUN.

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released December 1, 2017

Recorded June-December 1996 at Ancient Hangover Studios, Fairfax, VA

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