Appropriate Responses

Amanaz - Khala My Friend

Africa Reverb Mix

I Am Very Far (Reverb Mix)

Three emotional years in the making, Be With and Efficient Space finally present Steve Hiett’s Girls In The Grass. Pressed alongside the long awaited reissue of his one-shot masterpiece Down On The Road By The Beach, these ten balearic soul instrumentals are of equal necessity; unrivalled beauty rescued from the fashion photographer-guitarist’s Paris Tapes (1986-1997). 

While recordings unintended for release should often be approached with caution, this is a rare case of unheard material being assembled as an indispensable and coherent piece. Girls In The Grass is something super special. The light and shadow that defines Hiett’s music is arguably more compelling here. It speaks to us in a language that feels profound, yet entirely comforting and familiar. 

Girls In The Grass reintroduces Hiett’s languid electric blues boogie, crafted on Saturday afternoons with fellow art director Simon Kentish. Kentish would cook, pour some wine and then utilise his arsenal of technology. He’d dial up a chugging rhythm, together with some ambient pads or keyboard textures, and anchor the weightless gauze of Hiett’s six-stringed touch. 

Hiett’s guitar sings with the same clean, crisp tone as Down On The Road, animated by a carefree weekend groove. Unlike his defining album which was boiled under pressure, these subsequent sessions have all the time in the world. The naïve melodies chart a missing link between Vini Reilly’s ventures into electronica and Booker T, sounding like sun-warped takes on wordless, fractured non-hits from his heroes The Beach Boys. 

Remastered for public pleasure by Simon Francis, these private moments are adorned with Hiett’s singular photography and feature typically idiosyncratic liner notes from Mikey IQ Jones.

Steve Hiett - Are These My Memories? (ES011/BEWITH062LP)

Mark Sultan, best known as BBQ of the legendary King Khan and BBQ Show, and whose repertoire is far too lengthy for this already superfluous run-on sentence, finally lands himself on Slovenly Recordings for a two-track single of superb 60's garage swankness! Monsieur Sultan makes autobiographical on the suave and sparse "Filthy Rat," switching gears from slow to GO! on the swinging flip "Heart Attack," harmonizing with his own bad self over a classic teenpunk shuffle beat with the unmistakable goldenthroat that all the crazed kids the world over swoon for.

"Filthy Rat" EP

Filthy Rat

MARK SULTAN -Filthy Rat- EP - 02 Heart Attack

Founded in 2002, Slovenly Recordings was a new direction for label veteran Pete "Stickerguy" Menchetti. Having just scrapped his 702 Records (Scared of Chaka/ The Loudmouths) imprint, Pete was on a mission to release only the best in garage and punk shit rock for crazy kids all over the planet. Starting with a very fine full length release by the Netherlands' swampiest caveman blues duo Lo-Lite, Slovenly has grown to be one of the most respected labels world wide for ripping and REAL rock'n'roll!

All of our releases are available on VINYL, with many of the LPs also having a CD edition.

Slovenly imprint BLACK GLADIATOR is run by Bazooka Joe of The Thing With Two Heads DJ duo. Totally corrosive garage-punk, sometimes psychedelic, and often with a warped hip-hop sensibility, Black Gladiator has released records by Tunnel of Love, Vex Ruffin and the Lo-Fi Jerkheads, Gino and the Goons, Sick Thoughts, The Monsieurs, The Hussy, PyPy, New Coke, Obnox, The Psyched and Electric Crush.