Slow Pulp
At Home

The name Slow Pulp might mean almost nothing to those who are used to discovering new music only via radio or in record stores in our beautiful country.
On the contrary, in the rest of the world and on web streaming platforms (primarily Spotify, Bandcamp, and Soundcloud) this name is becoming known thanks to several distinguished singles released over the past three years, spaced months apart from each other.

Slow Pulp quickly gained good local and national fame, which led them to embark on tours lasting several months.
In September 2018, this four-piece band moved from the small town of Madison, Wisconsin to the windy metropolis of Chicago and began composing new music in an environment suited to satisfy their creative and productive aspirations.
The element that mainly distinguishes the sound of their music is the voice of singer and guitarist Emily Massey, often used to create particular harmonies in songs already based on repetitive, psychedelic, and sometimes deliberately off-key guitar riffs, as if to highlight the likely altered state in which the musicians composed the pieces.
The constant use of effects such as delay and chorus, sometimes heavily applied, is made even more evident by the elementary dryness of the rhythmic parts.

Before moving to Chicago, Slow Pulp released an EP (EP2, 2017) and the single At Home in the summer of 2018.
This last track immediately caught my attention for its hypnotic guitar intro and the singer's voice, firm yet calm, overdubbed multiple times almost to create a choral and very intimate effect.
I used this track in a video montage from my last trip to Thailand and found that it matched perfectly with the hypnotic and swirling repetitiveness of the decorations of the prang at the Temple of Dawn (Wat Arun) in Bangkok.

I consider this track and the band’s short (for now) discography as a small precious gem and therefore recommend you listen to it, hoping they will soon release their first real album.