The Slits have a new album coming out soon! It’s been 28 years since their last — I was beginning to wonder. It’s produced by Adrian Sherwood. Slits and Sherwood sounds like a great combination, but maybe would have been more potent had it happened 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
I heard a song from the album on On The Wire — not sure about the title but it might have been Source: On the Wire 18 July 2009<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n P.S. I found out later that Ari Up is indeed still fronting the band. THe album will be called Trapped Animal<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Slits have a new album coming out soon! It’s been 28 years since their last — I was beginning to wonder. It’s produced by Adrian Sherwood. Slits and Sherwood sounds like a great combination, but maybe would have been more potent had it happened 20 years ago. I heard a song from the album… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Can’t Be Late<\/em><\/del> Can’t Relate<\/em>. The dubby backing is infused with tango rhythms, sounding very nice indeed. The vocals are as atonal as ever, though less upfront than in the old days — can’t tell if Ari Up is still behind the mic (as they say) (don’t they?). I will be interested to hear the album.<\/p>\n