Toronto's song-sculptor and shape-shifting performer
Slim Twig is capping off a hectic year by releasing the second volume of his
Spit It Twig! Mixtape series before heading out on a string of North American dates. This follows the release of Slim Twig's debut album
Contempt! on Paper Bag Records, which was released in April of this year.
As a nod to the hip hop mixtapes he loves,
Spit It Twig! began with Vol. 1 released in advance on
Contempt! 'as a skeletal blueprint' of his debut album by creating a sample-based album, a la
Wu-Tang Clan, combined with his own style of vocals. Some of the tracks from
Spit It Twig! have also been popping up in Slim's live shows of late. Both volumes are available for download at the above link.
"Spit It Twig Vol. 2 represents my commitment to the free mixtape format I admire so much in artists like Lil Wayne & the Clipse. This time I decided to stretch out my repertoire in directions both more overtly hip hop ('This Night's Untold' & 'More Mercy, Miss Percy'), and even more abstract ('The Pink Room', 'Perfect Pitch'). This mix also features more collaboration than any of my other releases with contributions from Dirty Beaches, Onakabazien, D-Sisive and a (one-sided-career-fullfilling) collab with David Lynch. The diversity of Spit It Twig Vol. 2 was meant to reveal my intention & future direction with tapes which is to periodically expose experiments, and spontaneous ideas to those who are curious... all for a great price." - Slim Twig
Slim Twig's artistic vision is born from a twisted landscape of pop, experimental music and avant-garde film. Besides his great hair, this vision has given many critics a lot to write about since first being introduced last year with his two-part EP series,
Derelict Dialect and
Vernacular Violence. Critics have noted Slim's "soliloquist's flair" (
Globe and Mail) and the "mesmerizing" quality and "enduring mythology" of songs like 'Whiite Fantaseee' (
Pitchfork).
Spit It Twig Vol. 2 Track Listing:
01 Silver Silver
02 Black Eldorado
03 The Siamese Survived
04 This Night's Untold feat. D-Sisive
05 Perfect Pitch
06 Norma Jean
07 More Mercy, Miss Percy
08 The Pink Room
09 A Name Is a Pistol
SLIM TWIG ON TOUR:
11/12 - Brooklyn, NY - Market Hotel
11/13 - New York, NY - WNYU Make The Product radio show
11/15 - Philadelphia, PA - Danger Danger w/ The Chickens
11/18 - Baltimore, MD - Hexagon Space w/ Rosemary Krust
11/21 - Bloomington, IN - The Realm w/ Circuit des Yeaux
11/22 - Chicago, IL - Weirder Park w/ Heavy Times
11/23 - Chicago - TBC
11/25 - Madison, WI - Project Lodge w/ Julian Lynch
11/27 - Detroit, MI - Division Street Gallery w/ Telephone Callers, Grass Canyon
12/2 - Guelph ONT - The Attic w/ Tamsen & Elliot
12/3 - Montréal, QUE - Friendship Cove w/ The Pink Noise, Postcards
12/4 - Ottawa, ONT - 443 Kent
12/5 - Toronto, ONT - Double Double Landw/ Onakabazien, Carl Didur
For more info, please visit:
http://www.myspace.com/slimtwig http://paperbagrecords.com/bands/slimtwig 
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SLIM TWIG RELEASES SPIT IT TWIG! VOL.2, EMBARKS ON NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
JACK ROSE AND THE BLACK TWIG PICKERS: UK DATES START TONIGHT!