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Slim Twig
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Slim Twig is a Canadian songwriter\u002F performer and film actor.\n \nSlim Twig is the stage and screen persona created by Max Turnbull. He was born in 1988, the son of Toronto-based filmmakers, Ross Turnbull and Jennifer Hazel, and graduated from the Claude Watson School of the Arts in 2006.\n \nSlim Twig played 'Billy Zero' in the 2007 film, The Tracey Fragments, directed by Bruce McDonald and starring Ellen Page. Slim was cast as 'Max' in French director Kim Chapiron's film, Dog Pound, set in a juvenile detention centre, and plays the lead character in an independent feature film produced by his parents entitled Sight Unseen, for which he also composed the score. He has acted in numerous commercial productions and shorts, and scored other films. In 2013, he composed the score for the acclaimed documentary, We Come as Friends, directed by Hubert Sauper.\n \nPaper Bag Records has released two Slim Twig EPs and two, full-length albums. His most recent LP, A Hound at the Hem, was released by his own label, Calico Corp., in conjunction with Pleasence Records. In September, 2014, New York-based DFA Records announced that it is re-releasing A Hound at the Hem.\n \nIn addition to Slim Twig-branded music, the artist plays guitar and sings in the band, Tropics, with Simone TB on drums. In a review of his early Slim Twig EPs, Pitchfork Media stated that Tropics' music is “a feral take on the Birthday Party's blitzkrieg blues.” Slim Twig has formerly pursued a solo project called Archaic Women and played as part of a “psychedelic cover band” called Plastic Factory. In 2009, Tropics released a cassette tape entitled SETTE.\n \nThe earliest Slim Twig recordings were self-released in 2005 on a CD entitled Livestock Burn, and an EP, Dissonant Folk. Derelict Dialect was the first Slim Twig EP release from Paper Bag Records, in April, 2008. Prior to that, Slim Twig self-released an EP called Whiite Fantaseee. The songs from that recording (save one) were subsequently re-mastered and issued as Vernacular Violence by Paper Bag Records, in August, 2008. Paper Bag later released its two Slim Twig EPs as a limited edition, vinyl LP album.\n \nIn 2009, Paper Bag Records released Contempt!, Slim Twig's first, full-length LP. He states that he created the record largely from found sound and samples set against his own vocals. A NOW Magazine review of the album called it “...startlingly unique...” Coinciding with the release of Contempt!, Slim created a free, downloadable “mixtape” EP entitled Spit It Twig! (Vol. 1). Spit it Twig! Vol 2 was issued in the fall of 2009. It was named one of the top downloads of the year by Toronto's alternative weekly magazines. The third release in the mixtape series is A Sheik in Scores, issued on cassette and as a download.\n \nSlim Twig has received considerable, occasionally polarized press coverage (in print and on the internet), with much of it recognizing his unusual adventurousness and artistry. In 2008, the artist was called “an icon-in-the-making...” and named Toronto's Best Pop\u002F Rock Artist of the year by Now Magazine. In various articles about Slim Twig, well-known popular music artists have been mentioned for comparison purposes, notably including Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Suicide and David Bowie. In a concert review, music columnist Sarah Liss suggested that Slim Twig's music sounds like “...what might happen if you left a bunch of Elvis Presley LPs on a radiator, smashed them to bits with a hammer and re-assembled them for play on a turntable. In a word, otherworldly.” He has on more than one occasion, and in a positive context, been called a "pop weirdo". Of his music, one site suggests that "It is isn't possible to get more post-modern pop than this."\n \nSlim Twig's early interest in experimentation appeared to challenge critics looking to situate him in a pop music context. One writer found the songs on Contempt! "...like the oddly appropriate soundtracks to confounding four dimensional art installations..." Critics also have suggested the influence of cinema on Slim Twig, with one remarking on “...his compulsive soliloquist's flair, a direct but static-filled line into a collective cinematic unconscious.” Indeed, in speaking about his creative approach, the artist cited his admiration for David Lynch's work.\n \nIn 2011, Slim Twig professed to a change of direction, stating in an interview with NOW Magazine that he is "...reinventing himself as a 60s pop craftsman." His first foray in this direction was a split recording with U.S. Girls, whose side he co-produced, on FatCat subsidiary label, Palmist Records. The release was very well received. Slim Twig also produced the two most recent U.S. Girls LPs, U.S. Girls on Kraak and Gem.\n \nSlim Twig and U.S. Girls have jointly created their own label, Calico Corp., and each artist issued a 7" single as the label's first productions. In addition to co-releasing Slim Twig's latest LP, A Hound at the Hem, Calico Corp. has released an EP, Flushing Meats, by Eric Copeland, and most recently, Zacht Automaat, a double LP by the eponymously named Toronto duo.\n \nIn August, 2012, Paper Bag released their second Slim Twig LP, Sof' Sike, which garnered enthusiastically positive reviews. Calico Corp. and Pleasence Records then issued A Hound at the Hem, in November, although it was apparently completed prior to Sof' Sike. While cited as "...a pop record that completely forgets it's a pop record...“, A Hound at the Hem has elsewhere been effusively praised as "...a new masterpiece...one of the best post-glam concept albums not made in the slippery 70s”.\n \nIn addition to re-releasing A Hound at the Hem, DFA Records is releasing Slim Twig's follow-up album.
Slim Twig is a Canadian songwriter\u002F performer and film actor.\n \nSlim Twig is the stage and screen persona created by Max Turnbull. He was born in 1988, the son of Toronto-based filmmakers, Ross Turnbull and Jennifer Hazel, and graduated from the Claude Watson School of the Arts in 2006.\n \nSlim Twig played 'Billy Zero' in the 2007 film, The Tracey Fragments, directed by Bruce McDonald and starring Ellen Page. Slim was cast as 'Max' in French director Kim Chapiron's film, Dog Pound, set in a juvenile detention centre, and plays the lead character in an independent feature film produced by his parents entitled Sight Unseen, for which he also composed the score. He has acted in numerous commercial productions and shorts, and scored other films. In 2013, he composed the score for the acclaimed documentary, We Come as Friends, directed by Hubert Sauper.\n \nPaper Bag Records has released two Slim Twig EPs and two, full-length albums. His most recent LP, A Hound at the Hem, was released by his own label, Calico Corp., in conjunction with Pleasence Records. In September, 2014, New York-based DFA Records announced that it is re-releasing A Hound at the Hem.\n \nIn addition to Slim Twig-branded music, the artist plays guitar and sings in the band, Tropics, with Simone TB on drums. In a review of his early Slim Twig EPs, Pitchfork Media stated that Tropics' music is “a feral take on the Birthday Party's blitzkrieg blues.” Slim Twig has formerly pursued a solo project called Archaic Women and played as part of a “psychedelic cover band” called Plastic Factory. In 2009, Tropics released a cassette tape entitled SETTE.\n \nThe earliest Slim Twig recordings were self-released in 2005 on a CD entitled Livestock Burn, and an EP, Dissonant Folk. Derelict Dialect was the first Slim Twig EP release from Paper Bag Records, in April, 2008. Prior to that, Slim Twig self-released an EP called Whiite Fantaseee. The songs from that recording (save one) were subsequently re-mastered and issued as Vernacular Violence by Paper Bag Records, in August, 2008. Paper Bag later released its two Slim Twig EPs as a limited edition, vinyl LP album.\n \nIn 2009, Paper Bag Records released Contempt!, Slim Twig's first, full-length LP. He states that he created the record largely from found sound and samples set against his own vocals. A NOW Magazine review of the album called it “...startlingly unique...” Coinciding with the release of Contempt!, Slim created a free, downloadable “mixtape” EP entitled Spit It Twig! (Vol. 1). Spit it Twig! Vol 2 was issued in the fall of 2009. It was named one of the top downloads of the year by Toronto's alternative weekly magazines. The third release in the mixtape series is A Sheik in Scores, issued on cassette and as a download.\n \nSlim Twig has received considerable, occasionally polarized press coverage (in print and on the internet), with much of it recognizing his unusual adventurousness and artistry. In 2008, the artist was called “an icon-in-the-making...” and named Toronto's Best Pop\u002F Rock Artist of the year by Now Magazine. In various articles about Slim Twig, well-known popular music artists have been mentioned for comparison purposes, notably including Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Suicide and David Bowie. In a concert review, music columnist Sarah Liss suggested that Slim Twig's music sounds like “...what might happen if you left a bunch of Elvis Presley LPs on a radiator, smashed them to bits with a hammer and re-assembled them for play on a turntable. In a word, otherworldly.” He has on more than one occasion, and in a positive context, been called a "pop weirdo". Of his music, one site suggests that "It is isn't possible to get more post-modern pop than this."\n \nSlim Twig's early interest in experimentation appeared to challenge critics looking to situate him in a pop music context. One writer found the songs on Contempt! "...like the oddly appropriate soundtracks to confounding four dimensional art installations..." Critics also have suggested the influence of cinema on Slim Twig, with one remarking on “...his compulsive soliloquist's flair, a direct but static-filled line into a collective cinematic unconscious.” Indeed, in speaking about his creative approach, the artist cited his admiration for David Lynch's work.\n \nIn 2011, Slim Twig professed to a change of direction, stating in an interview with NOW Magazine that he is "...reinventing himself as a 60s pop craftsman." His first foray in this direction was a split recording with U.S. Girls, whose side he co-produced, on FatCat subsidiary label, Palmist Records. The release was very well received. Slim Twig also produced the two most recent U.S. Girls LPs, U.S. Girls on Kraak and Gem.\n \nSlim Twig and U.S. Girls have jointly created their own label, Calico Corp., and each artist issued a 7" single as the label's first productions. In addition to co-releasing Slim Twig's latest LP, A Hound at the Hem, Calico Corp. has released an EP, Flushing Meats, by Eric Copeland, and most recently, Zacht Automaat, a double LP by the eponymously named Toronto duo.\n \nIn August, 2012, Paper Bag released their second Slim Twig LP, Sof' Sike, which garnered enthusiastically positive reviews. Calico Corp. and Pleasence Records then issued A Hound at the Hem, in November, although it was apparently completed prior to Sof' Sike. While cited as "...a pop record that completely forgets it's a pop record...“, A Hound at the Hem has elsewhere been effusively praised as "...a new masterpiece...one of the best post-glam concept albums not made in the slippery 70s”.\n \nIn addition to re-releasing A Hound at the Hem, DFA Records is releasing Slim Twig's follow-up album.
