BEN VIDA - slipping control LP Emo “I wanted to destroy the

“I wanted to destroy the idea of correct so we were playing it different ways for fun

then go to the studio and use the material as starting points for songs

shutting down the need for further experiments forever

"High Water Song" follows a narrator whose home is washed away by the effects of climate change and struggles to integrate into a new homeland

his debut album for Merge Records and the first to feature current bandmates JASON NARDUCY and JON WURSTER

BEN VIDA - slipping control LP Emo “I wanted to destroy theSlipping Control derives from the text piece "Tztztztzt ." wrote last year by Ben Vida (and published as a book by Shelter Press). Composed to act as a score, a sound piece and as raw data for electronic control source, Tztztztzt became the intrinsic element that tied all different pieces of art made by Ben Vida. "I was interested in the rhythm of speaking, interested in using the voice to create rhythmic patterns that would inevitably break out of