Feeding Tube releasing The Slowest Lift's Plutonic Shine on vinyl

Byron Coley's Feeding Tube label is reissuing The Slowest Lift's cassette-only release Plutonic Shine on wax in April. Read all about it. 

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Feeding Tube Records has just announced a vinylization of last year’s 'Plutonic Shine' cassette by UK duo, The Slowest Lift. Comprised of Julian Bradley (Vibracathedral Orchestra, etc.) and Sophie Cooper (whose Divine Ekstasys LP, FTR 342, is a dang classic), The Slowest Lift has been producing high-quality avant-pop form-waffling for several years. Their eponymous debut album was on VHF, and Plutonic Shine continues their drive into the heart of some very weird beast.

Sophie’s vocals sometimes breath like the air itself, although they can also surface as distorted puffs of lung-powered color, melodically-oriented, but trapped by no ordinary sense of song structure. The instrumental portion seems to be built with electronics and guitars, which create mounds of sound for the vocals to hide behind and dodge around.

Although the sound is as “now” as any hep cat could wish. there is really very little to date this music archeologically. The basic tools for what The Slowest Lift do have been around for decades. It is what Julian and Sophie choose to do with these tools that will knock that beaver hat right off your head.

Gorgeous stuff.

– Byron Coley, 2020

The Slowest Lift's Plutonic Shine LP is being released in a limited-edition of 250 copies with a digital download coupon available April 24th. Pre-order a copy from Feeding Tube Records right here. Have a listen to 'Plutonic Shine' below then you can watch Ned Netherwood from Was Ist Das music blog discuss the cassette while it plays on his boombox emblazoned with Ecstatic Peace sticker and his furry sidekick runs for cover.