"Seeing them live was amazing...I instantly felt a bond with these three guys. You see so many tired, boring rock acts doing the
same thing over and over, but these guys are reaching out...They're taking what we know of music and trying to twist it to a different
place." - Jim James, Sunday NYTimes, July 2, 2006
These days, when not touring or busy in the recording studio, Brad, Andrew and Marc can be found roaming the streets of Brooklyn
or Montreal, enjoying a cafe from the local barista, catching a film at the moviehouse or reading quietly in the park.
Brad Barr is the band's core songwriter and one of the great rock guitarists of his generation. He has also joined an adult
softball league. Brad is the troubadour whos absorbed it all, from Blonde on Blonde to Bitches Brew. He has the ability to do
almost anything on six strings, yet consistently plays with taste, context and humility, understanding the awesome power of three
chords and a simple melody to bring people in.
Marc Friedman is mission control on bass guitar, the foundation keeping it all together. Marc brings the nutmeg and the cinnamon.
Andrew Barr is the engine and the source of the band..s chaos and primal energy, adding thunder
and lightning to the intimacy of a heartbeat.
Which brings us
to Eisenhower. After drilling deep within their home studios over the
almost five years since their last studio release, the band finally entered the Q-Division Studios in Boston to create a
stunning album that brings adventure, daring, and honest songwriting back to the annals of rock. The band's first release for
Bar/None Records, this is music that points to the future, synthesizing older influences like The Beatles, Bach, and Led Zeppelin
while also engaging in a current dialogue with the likes of Built to Spill, Iron & Wine and Wilco.
Co-produced by the band and the dapper Matthew Ellard (Elliot Smith, Billy Bragg & Wilco, Morphine) and with additional engineering
by good friend and fellow Montrealien Drew Malamud (Stars, Metric, The Dears), EISENHOWER easily stands as the most
cohesive and evocative work The SLIP has released to date.
Massive Lennon-esque ballads give way to
angular post-punk deconstructions and gently transition into intimate acoustic lullabies. Virtuosic surf-rock intros drift seamlessly
into dusty, epic, headphone Americana...all of this, and yet, somehow, the story is never lost, it all ends up making sense. It is the
work of a band at it..s finest: a new paradigm in wide-awake rock-realism.
We are so pleased to bring you EISENHOWER.
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"New Artist to Watch" (Feature)
-Rolling Stone Magazine
"Band to Watch"
-Stereogum.com
"Artist to Watch"
-FILTER
"'EISENHOWER...is easily one of the best indie-rock records of 2006."
-AOL/Spinner's The Interface
"The best rock album of the year."
-Huffington Post
"The SLIP are the real deal. This is indie-rock at it's best...Eisenhower is, dare we say it, a classic, undeniably great and gallant"
-Amazon.com
"The brilliant new album EISENHOWER, a potent condensation of the Slip's expansive, soulfulexplorations...once again The SLIP push their rock to the top of the mountain."
-Village Voice
"EISENHOWER is a warm mix of experimental rock, massive hooks, weird sounds, big fuzzyguitars and rootsy, timeless songs with a pop sensibility...the airtight vessel [the band] needs toreach the shore."
-HARP Magazine
"40 - Best Albums of 2005"
-HARP Magazine
"Hopefully these guys will be semi-widely accepted, because it's really beautiful stuff."
-Rolling Stone Magazine (From “I’m Down With The SLIP” by My Morning Jacket's Jim James)
"Artist to Watch" (Full month of December 2006)
-WXPN Philadelphia
"...An excellent pop album. EISENHOWER is full of alt-rock sculpted with the sort of innovation, and played with a level of rigor, normally associated with jazz giants. The songs are smart and sophisticated but also heartfelt and humble. The album is certain to attract new fans, and may alienate some old ones...a giant step towards the mainstream."
-Boston Globe
“Seeing them live was amazing...I instantly felt a bond with these three guys. You see so many tired, boring rock acts doing the same thing over and over, but these guys are reaching out...They're taking what we know of music and trying to twist it to a different place."
-The Sunday New York Times (My Morning Jacket's Jim James "Playlist")
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