Shaki Tavi - Minor Slip

Through layered squalls of fuzzed-out guitars and overdriven drums, deceptively beautiful pop hooks emerge, illuminated by Manson’s weathered, harmonized baritone and knack for inventive structures. Lead single, “Breaker”, combines a mid tempo breakbeat with prismatic guitars and laid back vocals, in a cross-pollination of genres that distills Manson’s years in different bands and scenes into a sincere, uncompromising vision. On “Foam”, skull-rattling riffs and a howling guitar hook soar over Big Beat drums, equally evoking arena-sized grandeur and jangly sway. The fullness and ambition in Manson’s arrangements developed over the course of a few years of writing, revising, and recording. He recalls, “After some surprising feedback to a couple of bedroom demos, I got my bandmates into the studio to make more polished versions; this second phase involved a familiar kind of existential drift and doubt, but the solution was the same as always: keep it simple, make stuff I like, and go from there.” RIYL: Cloakroom, Narrow Head, Hum, Krauss, julie, Film, School, Ovlov, Pile, The Rentals, early Weezer