Premiere: Slip, ‘The Thought of a Past Life Is Comforting’

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Slip (Photo by Zane Roessell)
Slip (Photo by Zane Roessell)

Starting in 2017, Taylor Brown began releasing songs from the solo project he had long been incubating, Slip. Every one sounds like a secret finally being told.

Brown, a longtime member of and sideman in other bands (most recently spotted playing with Low Hum at their residency), roots around in a world of deep grooves and hypnotic effects, a sense of almost chilling ennui casting shadows on his personal epiphanies. Slip’s new single “The Thought of a Past Life Is Comforting” is a brooding mind game — after all, if we had past lives, we will have future ones, right? We’ll get another chance? “We don’t have a life to lose,” Brown sings plaintively. Chew on that.

Slip’s debut album “The Cost” is in the works, co-produced by Jules de Gasperis and mastered by Howie Weinberg.

All signs point to Slip getting it right the first time.

||| Stream: “The Thought of a Past Life Is Comforting”

||| Previously: “The Patient,” “Head on Backwards”