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The band's three members -- Craig M Clarke, Daniel Crowell, and Troy James -- are unassuming, non-flashy residents of Northern California. Traveling between San Francisco, Ukiah, and Sacramento to work on their music, these guys are more concerned with honing their sound than their fashion. After years in other projects, the members of the New Slave emerge as California's newest mood rockers, bringing experience, focus, and heart to a dark project. Like the most oblique and spare moments of Joy Division and Spacemen 3, The New Slave often paint a cold mood, but it's always honest. Released in 2009, the band's debut, self-titled, full-length album was produced and mixed by Jace Lasek (of the Besnard Lakes). 2010 will see the band release another string of singles followed by their second full-length album, Forget Progress, Return to Instinct.
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1975 - Single
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Glass Bottom - Single
The Blackness of My Heart - Single
Bright City Lights - Single
Waiting - Single
Building Spring EP
Built around glacial Pink Floyd rhythms and spacey
guitar and keyboard textures, the New Slave boast a psychedelic
sound. But for all of the space they create, this band is focused:
the hooks are sharp and the lyrics are clear, always down the
middle and biting. If anything, their music is a sparse psychedelia.
Through a haze of depressive and self-medicated sounds the New
Slave embraces moments of clarity that arise during harrowing
periods of emotional despair. And as true relationship drifts
happen over time in real life, this band examines their own personal
dramas in real-time, employing the space of several songs to examine
conditions like romantic withdrawal and loss of faith. With their
confessional lyrics set as the foundation, they decorate the architecture
with subtle electronic beats, acoustic strums, cerebral guitars,
and layers of keyboards. The effect is surreal but undoubtedly
human.
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