The Slaps at Wild Child Taps (Olympia, WA)
Schedule
Sat Feb 08 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Wild Man Brewing Gastropub | Olympia, WA
CapCity Presents:The Slaps
Saturday February 8th, 2025
All Ages Welcome
Doors at 7pm
Show at 7:30pm
$17 Advance or $20 DOS
The Slaps:
As proven on their strange and beautiful new album Mudglimmer, the looming specter of artistic oblivion pushed The Slaps to lean into their idiosyncrasies: snaking rhythms, complicatedly interlocking guitar riffs, grubby yet alluring poetry, and homespun post-modern Americana sing-alongs all surge with a free-wheeling improvisatory verve informed by free jazz. It’s a stunning DIY comeback story, a doubling-down on avant-garde impulses that pays immediate dividends. Spontaneous composition and earnest, threadbare folk collide on Mudglimmer. It’s a marvel of influential synthesis, evoking Slint’s comfortability with ominous tension (“Mudglimmer”), Tortoise’s slinky push-pull grooves (“Filthy Sex Manuevers”), Waxahatchee’s slice-of-life Americana gems (“Flip”), elliptical funk-punk a la The Minutemen (“Forward”), minimal grunge-pop in the vein of Sebadoh (“King”) and so much more. Mudglimmer, in short, rips. Faced with existential threats, The Slaps reconfigured and reenergized — finding purpose, not in reaching for a brass ring, but in becoming fully, unashamedly, their own wonderfully confounding thing.
https://www.outermostagency.com/the-slaps
Where is it happening?
Wild Man Brewing Gastropub, 414 4th Ave E,Olympia,WA,United States
