Slim Twig is ready to tour Europe properly for the first time and will perform with his 4 piece rock'n'roll band fresh after the release of his two acclaimed LPs on DFA Records "A Hound At The Hem" & "Thank You For Stickin' With Twig".

Thank You For Stickin’ With Twig came out August 7, 2015 on DFA, you may be surprised to know that it represents the fifth album by the Toronto based songwriter / producer. The evolution from Contempt!, his sample-stained 2009 debut, through to A Hound At The Hem, his symphonic tribute album to Nabokov’s Lolita (reissued by DFA in 2014), is not entirely linear, although intriguing all the same. One can see why he extends a gratuity to those listeners who’ve stuck around.

In what form then, do we now find the twenty-six-year old, self-proclaimed ‘wah wah master’? His record reissued last year was completed in 2011. So one might reasonably ask, what has Twig done since? After producing two albums for U.S. Girls (U.S. Girls on Kraak in 2011, Gem in 2012), and scoring two films (Sight Unseen & We Come As Friends, winner of a Special Jury Award at Sundance, among numerous other accolades), Twig found himself in 2013 at a creative impasse re: his own songwriting. He had been through full band incarnations live and on record. They featured a cast of Toronto heavies (members of Zacht Automaat, etc…). He briefly performed Slim Twig sets as a duo, featuring multimedia artist and musician, Meg Remy (U.S. Girls). They performed sets that combined versions of Twig’s released songs with freely structured improvisations, samples, and brightly melodic, synth textures. Something in this combination of the pop-minded and the cerebrally-produced has rubbed off on the recordings found on Twig’s latest.

“Immediately fascinating” Q
“... far too good to be neglected a second time round” MOJO
“... sounds like Nick Cave cast as a wedding singer at zombie nuptials” Sunday Times
“... few are as outwardly ambitious as Slim Twig” NME
“it does make you wonder what Slim Twig could possibly come up with next.” The Quietus

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