''Moveys'' is the debut studio album by American indie rock band

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. It was released by Winspear on October 9, 2020. The album was produced by Henry Stoehr, the band's lead guitarist.

Background

After releasing their third

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, ''Big Day'' (2019), Slow Pulp signed a record deal with Winspear and began touring with

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. During the tour, the Chicago-based quartet started working on ''Moveys''. The band created a completed album, but scrapped it and began rewriting it after lead vocalist Emily Massey was diagnosed with

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and chronic

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. In March 2020, Massey returned to her hometown,

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, after her parents were injured in an automobile crash. Shortly after, the

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forced people to go into

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; the band was only approximately halfway through completing the album. Although it caused guitarist and producer Henry Stoehr to lose his day job, the pandemic provided the band members more time to work on the album, albeit remotely.

Touring

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the band was unable to go on tour around the time of the album's release. Instead, the band's first headliner tour after the release of ''Moveys'' was their

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tour, which started on November 4, 2021, in Madison, Wisconsin.

Critical reception

''Moveys'' received positive reviews from critics. At

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, which assigns a

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rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an

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score of 74, based on six reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Writing for ''

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'', Scott Russell praised the band's songwriting and noted that the album has "the confidence of a band who have leaned on each other through trouble and grown stronger for it". Hayley Milross of ''

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'' similarly praised the songwriting and described the album as "weightless – in a sense that the tracks all fall into their natural place".

Track listing

All tracks were written by Alexander Leeds, Emily Massey, Henry Stoehr, and Theodore Mathews. # New Horse2:00 # Trade It2:52 # Idaho4:05 # Track3:34 # At It Again2:03 # Channel 22:25 # Whispers (In The Outfield)1:49 # Falling Apart2:46 # Montana3:20 # Movey1:21

References

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External links

Youtube: Slow Pulp official channel, featuring "Track" from Moveys album
(accessed 19 January 2022) 2020 debut albums Slow Pulp albums