Late Slip released its debut full-length record I Love You on June 7, 2024 via Party Mermaid Records on 12” LP vinyl, CD, digital download and on streaming platforms. Lead by singer, songwriter and guitarist Chelsea Nenni the retro-pop group offers tightly crafted songs reminiscent of 60s girl groups, 70s period Dolly Parton and Josie Cotton. Nenni was East Coast born but grew up in California a fan of Elvis Presley and Tom Petty and studied opera in college. But it was Gwen Stefani that inspired Nenni to finally try to start a band. She moved to NYC in her mid-20s in pursuit of that goal and during a particularly bleak winter taught herself guitar and wrote the musical foundations of the earliest Late Slip songs. Before fully developing the project Nenni moved to Los Angeles and almost immediately found herself working at the legendary Amoeba Music record store where she made friends and connections that helped her more fully achieve her creative goals. The group recorded its first EP Other Men (2016) at Barefoot Studios with Cian Riordan (who has worked with Sleater-Kinney, St. Vincent and others) and through Amoeba Nenni met with store regular Bobb Burno of Best Coast fame (and Polar Goldie Cats renown to those more underground and experimentally-minded). Bruno connected Nenni with Lewis Pesacov who produced the new record. Although the sounds and visual aesthetic of yesteryear inform the music of Late Slip there is a warm spiritedness to the performances that anchor it very much in the vital present.
Listen to our interview with Chelsea Nenni on Bandcamp and follow Late Slip at the links below.
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