Slackers - Self MedicationVinyl LP pressing + bonus 7" single. Over 30+ years, The Slackers have remained one of the most prolific musical combos in the game. In the course of drawing from a seemingly endless well of songwriting creativity, the band has released music on some of the biggest labels in independent music, as well as on much smaller boutique ska & reggae labels across the entire world. 2008's Self Medication LP was one of the latter releases, initially released on

Perhaps not more than half a dozen works are regularly played or recorded today

a song they had worked on intensely at the time but eventually abandoned for what he describes as "having lost the plot from over-proximity"

There are a lot of great REZ albums for sure

Framed by adaptations of contemporary pieces by Bryce Dessner and Chiel Meijering respectively

"Jaques was a connoisseur of classical music and a big Bach fan

beat rockers and hard instrumentals

a cool customer with the power to unleash a whirlwind of terror on his enemies

he was eulogized as Europe' greatest lutenist and one of Germany' most gifted musicians

A restoration of this organ has made it possible to reconstruct the intentions of this edition

taking on topics and approaches he never would think of just a few years ago

it was documented by the legendary mobile recordist Malachi Ritscher

consisting of Paul Gilbert