Slow Draw to Release The People’s Department of Governmental Checks and Balances April 29
As the actual governmental checks and balances are willfully eroded if not outright ignored, it’s good to know somebody’s thinking of breaking out the guillotine and returning to a classic solution to the oppressive forces of oligarchy. I’ll probably get put on a government watch list for posting the album cover of Slow Draw‘s The People’s Department of Governmental Checks and Balances — should be a protest sign if it isn’t one; I’d take a shirt if I could get white on black with the words on top (I’m pretty specific these days) — but the sentiment is welcome and it feels like anytime anybody is speaking out in a way more substantive than those Reels videos where some hyper-earnest-but-ultimately-doing-nothing 25-year-old sits down and tells you “this isn’t normal” for 30 seconds until the story cuts off.
There may not be a free press separate from corporate and/or political influence, and accountability may be a myth contigent on nothing more than what apparently until now was a belief in it, but it’s nice knowing you’re not alone while you’re hunkered down in your bunker/living room waiting for the nation to further unravel, daydreaming of an escape you likely won’t be lucky enough to make before you become a “it couldn’t happen here” cautionary tale. Horrors abound. At least the music’s good in this failed, shithole country.
From the PR wire:
Slow Draw – single “Trying to Land” – Ambient soundscapes, lightly steeped in exploratory psych and the meditative drawn-out cadence of drone out April 1st, 2025
Album “The People’s Department of Governmental Checks & Balances” out April 29th
Since 2017, Mark Kitchens (one third of Stone Machine Electric) has been steadily releasing a series of singles and albums through his solo project Slow Draw. Informed by drone, ambient, psychedelia, and more, Slow Draw creates patient, exploratory soundscapes. At times unsettling, at others peaceful, Kitchens navigates his way through space and noise with unwavering intent.
The next Slow Draw work arrives April 29th with the new album “The People’s Department of Governmental Checks & Balances”, led by the first of three singles, “Trying to Land”, out April 1st.
IN THE BAND’S OWN WORDS:
“This album is a continuation of the frustration with current times and events as expressed in the recent release ‘Living in a Land of Scarecrows’. Things seem to be going in reverse, and nothing is logical, so, this mess of songs reflects that kind of chaos and frustration.
The first single, ‘Trying to Land’, is about trying to reign it all in. Can you bring it in nice and smooth, or will it be rough and unpredictable? In this environment, you’ll never know until you are on the ground. Will it be rubble or business as usual?”
Slow Draw – The People’s Department of Governmental Checks & Balances
Single “Trying to Land” out April 1st, 2025
Album out April 29th (Digital, CD, limited run cassettes)
Self-released
Hurst, Texas
Slow Draw is:
Mark Kitchens
https://www.facebook.com/slowdrawband
https://www.instagram.com/slowdrawmusic
https://slowdraw.bandcamp.com
https://slowdraw.net/
