February 02, 2025
Doors: 7:30 PM - Show: 8:00 PM
Presented by Lulu's Downtown
The Slaps | Shop Dog | Cabin |
with Shop Dog, Cabin, and Hemlock
Lulu's Downtown
32 South Tejon St, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903
Date & Time
Sunday, February 02, 2025
8:00 PM
Location
Lulu's Downtown
32 South Tejon St, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903
The Slaps | Shop Dog at Lulu's Downtown on February 2nd, 2025!
All Ages, Standing-Room Only
Doors at 7:30pm
Show at 8:00pm
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.