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Arboreal by Sloth Racket pre-orders up! And December gigs…

The new Sloth Racket studio album ARBOREAL is coming out on 1st December and available to pre-order today!


The album was recorded in 2023 at Lightship 95 in London by Giles Barrett then mixed and mastered by Alex Bonney this year. It will be released on the Luminous label as a CD and digital album, along with a limited edition A6 booklet containing the scores from the album with new some riso collage artwork.

For some reason this album took me a while to get finished, so I’m really happy to get it (almost) out the door today. Have a listen to the pre-order track ‘Canopy Riot (At Home In The Leaf Light) and pre-order your physical copies over on the Sloth Racket Bandcamp.

To celebrate the release we’re doing two live dates in December. One south, one north:

  • 5th December in HASTINGS, at the Beacon presented by Two Ship! [buy tickets]
  • 17th December in SHEFFIELD, at The Lescar!

This will round off our very slow, year-long tour celebrating our tenth birthday as a band. Info about the gigs below

Quartz Sand album announced!

I’m super happy to post that the Quartz Sand album Stratigraphy is now available to pre-order from Flaming Pines! Quartz Sand is Kate Carr on electronics and objects, and me on the Lyra-8 synthesiser. Have a listen to some tracks and pre-order your copy over on the label Bandcamp site:

Sloth Racket Ten Years shirts!

They’re here….fresh new Sloth Racket shirts, the next phase of our birthday celebrations! Features a giant, fire-breathing sloth climbing over a cityscape that includes buildings from almost all* the places band members have lived since we formed: London, Dundee, Shipley, Stockport and Berlin…plus the Tyne Bridge as our first ever gig was in Gateshead.

Grab yours from our Bandcamp now! Other colours available…

*Not sure how this happened, but I forgot Manchester!

Ripsaw Catfish – Office Hours EP

Anton and I spontaneously released a new Ripsaw Catfish EP a few weeks ago! Office Hours is a series of tracks recorded in Anton’s, well, office. Originally intended just as private documents of a play together, we liked them so much we decided to put them ‘out there’. Add a photo of what was on my own desk, and the release was done. Hope you enjoy!

SETLIST 4!

Out today is Setlist 4! The final installment in my Setlist series of mini-zines as tools for improvisation. For this zine we return to the visual realm, with a theme of (miniature) maps. Once again a great bunch of artists said yes to this and have risen to the challenge, so in Setlist 4 you’ll find work by:

Khabat Abas
Sophie Cooper
Hannah McCann
Livia Garcia
Tullis Rennie
Benedict Taylor

All the zines have been printed by the excellent Footprint Workers’ Co-op in Leeds, and this one is no exception. This time I went with a super nice teal ink, and the A7 mini-zines are riso-printed on recycled paper as usual. I’m really pleased with how they came out; the dark teal colour brings a nice high-constrast quality that works great for images – whereas with text-based zines like Setlist 1 and 3 I was able to get away with some light/bright colour inks.

Setlist 4 is available now from my web shop, which I’ve finally given a name: Ink-Paper-Sound. This was the name of the launch event I put together at Cafe Oto for Setlist 3, and I liked it so much I wanted it to stick around.

Although this is the last Setlist zine (probably), Ink-Paper-Sound is just getting started as a project. With that in mind, also out today is ‘A skeleton/some bones’, a double-sided graphic score zine by me! Fold it yourself, or get me to do it, and play the two structures either in booklet form or flat. Here’s my attempt to photograph it, which was actually quite tricky…

Colin Webster Large Ensemble – First Meeting

Out now on Raw Tonk is First Meeting, the debut release from Colin Webster’s new large ensemble. Featuring an array of great improvisers – it’s a pleasure to be a part of it. The recording is from our gig last year at Cafe Oto. Have a listen….

It’s out!

Organising Space is out today. ‘A superbly conceived and executed release,’ said Andy Hamilton in the WIre magazine!

Organising Space by Sloth Racket available to pre-order today!

You can pre-order Organising Space starting today! Help me to know how many CD copies I need to make up by ordering yours right now, ready for the release day on 7th October. You can also listen to the first track from the album, ‘Not This Time’, in advance of the release day:

The sleeves were risograph-printed by Footprint Workers Co-op in Leeds, who also did our zines for the Dismantle Yourself album in 2019. I love the way they turned out!

Sloth Racket at Cafe Oto this October

A quick post to make you aware of the just-announced Sloth Racket album launch at Cafe Oto on 10th October! Tickets are on sale now for this special night – our first gig at Oto – where we’ll celebrate the release of our next album. The as-yet-untitled album is currently in progress and I’m very happy with the direction it’s going…

(Also pleased with the new collage-y image above that I put together for this gig!)