Browse by Artist: SLITS, THE

Artist:	SLITS, THE
Title:	Cut
Label:	4 MEN WITH BEARDS
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	4M 506LP

"Originally released in 1979, the debut from British all-girl post-punk band The Slits is available on 180 gram vinyl for the first time. Mixing a punk attitude and D.I.Y style with reggae rhythms and dub recording techniques, The Slits made some of the most avant pop of the period, which still sounds fresh and innovative today. Mixing unavoidable hooks, minimalist arrangements, and exuberant vocals with a rough, street smart style, Cut is a classic masterwork."

Artist:	SLITS, THE
Title:	The Return of the Giant Slits
Label:	BLAST FIRST PETITE (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$27.50
Catalog #:	PTYT 008CD

The full, original 1981 Return of the Giant Slits album + a bonus CD that features ALL the archived dub versions and an American radio interview conducted at the time that was subsequently used by CBS for an ultra-rare promo disc. Including new cover art and two of the classic photos by Anton Corbijn from the NME magazine cover session. The 1981 second and final Slits studio album features the same line-up as their first album, Cut: Ari Up, Tessa Pollit and Viv Albertine. This record has often been overshadowed by their more controversial 1979 debut. It represents their natural development as artistes by focusing more on their interests in dub and "world music" sound eclecticism (featuring Steve Beresford and ex-Pop Group drummer, Bruce Smith) that is well suited to their, by then, more accomplished playing style. Perhaps, in retrospect, the Jamaican half-sister to The Raincoats recordings. A "lost" gem, ripe for reappraisal, of this still vastly influential and important group, in both musical and sociological terms. Produced by Dennis Bovell and Dick O'Dell (Y Records). Previously only available as an expensive Japanese import and never before released in the USA.

Artist:	SLITS, THE
Title:	Live at the Gibus Club
Label:	EARMARK (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	EAR 306LP

"The Slits were not just a band. Their act shook the pillars of popular music as we know it, uttering one of the loudest cries of freedom and daring to challenge the ever male-controlled music business, even in its most liberal outcomes, like the underground pop scene is supposed to be. Their chaotic mixture of free spirit, primordial jazz-funk and punkish reggae made this group a unique experience in the incredible magma of punk rock inventions. Live At The Gibus Club, recorded in Paris in 1978, is a good example of how astonished, puzzled and amazed every punk audience must have been in those incredible years."

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