The Creep [LP]

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Slomo - The Creep [LP] 20th Anniversary Edition of ''The Creep'' by Slomo, this ambient doom masterwork is available on vinyl for the first time via Ideologic Organ. This is a stor ied album of verbal history, and emerged from a figurative long barrow deep within a virtual space of great depth and contemplation, an inverted framing of acoustic space with heavy floors ranging from the wake of COIL to the heaviest Japanese fire of psychedelia to the monuments of drone coagulating in the early 'aughts. A first CDR edition in 2005 garnered focus of heavyweights like SUNN O))), Julian Cope, GNOD, the esoteric legendary record store Aquarius, and the Wire. Ideologic Organ are honoured to have been tasked to bring this to a limited LP for the very first time, and collaborated with mastering genius Rashad Becker to create a 61 minute single LP in a perfect cut. The album will also be distributed widely on all digital channels, Stephen O'Malley, Stockholm May 2025, The Creep, contextualised. Just one week after the passing of COIL's Jhonn Balance in late 2004, the 61-minutes of ''The Creep'' manifested in a Sheffield suburb. Not yet a band and only captured due to happenstance, this first music of Slomo flowed forth without any consideration of it even being ''a piece'', let alone a release, though it didn't take long for the participants (Chris ''Holy'' McGrail and Howard Marsden) to realise they'd captured something of distinct colour on account of how often they were listening to it. Initially dubbed ''The Ballad of Jhonn & Sleazy'', the pair soon instead ascribed the music to Boleigh Fogou; a prehistoric underground chamber on the Land's End peninsula that both had recently visited and been affected by. ''The Creep'' took its name from the peculiar side chamber assumed to be if ritual function, having no apparent practical use. This ponderous music chimed perfectly with the fogou; an apparently stolid place that teems with life once you become attuned to its frequency. Fitting in perfectly alongside other massive single-track albums such as Sleep's ''Dopesmoker'', COIL's 'Queens of the Circulating Library', Cope's ''Odin'', and Boris' ''Flood'', ''The Creep'' secured a limited release on Cope's Fuck Off & Di CD-R label in 2005 that quickly sold out via supportive outlets such as Southern Lord, Aquarius Records and Stephen O'Malley's Ideologic Organ - then operating merely as a blog and micro-store. After a wider CD release in 2006, Slomo followed up ''The Creep'' with ''The Bog'' in 2008 a much denser plunder into the fundament. 2012 brought with it the pair's first live outings and ''The Grain'''', another nod to Land's End with an airier, more agricultural sound and the first signs of creeping automation. 2017's ''Transits'' captured three spontaneous compositions for time and space and remains a firm favourite among the band's listeners; one of the tracks going on to be remixed by twelve of the band's favourite artists on 2018's 2xCD compilation ''Super-Individual: Collective Ritual''. The band returned in 2024 with ''Zen and Zennor'' and live shows with GNOD and a sold-out show at Stone Club, London. Show more