Elastic Sleep’s bucket list may have been realised for 2014. Not only did the Irish shoegaze/dream pop outfit receive gracious recognition from some of the biggest U.K. music media outlets this year (NME and BBC 6 Music included), but they also recently received a personal visit to one of their Dublin performances from My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm O’Ciosoig – one of the band’s biggest musical influences. Off the back of their Big Tea Record EP release, Leave You, the band close the year with one of their most chaotic and weighty tracks yet.
“(Slip) is inspired by the things that keep you up at night; in particular, feelings of worthlessness and not being quite good enough. It bounces between your own feelings and how your lack of sense of worth can be reflected back at you through how others view and treat you."
"You start to wear away and slowly break down. The music follows this breakdown and as the verses progress, they get nosier and more discordant and dissolve into heavy, aggressive noise.”
Capped off with a 90’s grunge bass riff and airy vocals of Muireann Levis, Slip does exactly as its title warrants, permeating like an undercurrent until it overflows creating a sea of uneasy distortion. One could also see the addition of the Virgin Mary imagery as being synonymous with Slip’s themes of self-examination, especially when lifting the veil on personal shortcomings. Song themes aside, it is exciting to see this Cork five-piece exploring more droney-rock scenery, which they instinctively own just as much as they do with the dream pop genre.
Slip is available to pre-order on iTunes from Monday 17th November.
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