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Purge & Slouch is an album by the American band Giant Sand, released in 1993 through the German label Brake Out Records. It was released by Restless Records the following year. The band supported the album with a UK tour.

Production

The album was recorded at a house in the Tucson area; frontman Howe Gelb allegedly taped his vocals and guitar playing while lounging on a couch. The band improvised most of the music, which they had a difficult reproducing in a live setting. Susan Cowsill and Vicki Peterson sang on "Corridor". Rainer Ptacek played guitar on many of the tracks; Malcolm Burn contributed on bass. "Dock of the Bay" is a cover of the Otis Redding song. Gelb later acknowledged the informality and low stakes of the sessions, saying the he enjoyed what many journalists criticized. Stromausfall, the band's next album, released in a press run of 2,000 copies, included music recorded during the same sessions.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Rolling Stone
USA Today

USA Today called the album "charmingly tattered", noting that "Gelb mixes a half-dozen genres with his off-kilter sensibilities to produce addictive countrified folk-rock." Rolling Stone advised: "The debate among cultists who've supported Gelb for more than a decade is whether such albums reveal a dismaying lack of craft or are works of disjointed brilliance. Make no mistake: Purge and Slouch is lazy." The Press-Telegram said that "Gelb gets into some maddeningly introverted desert-jazz mumbling musings on occasion, but the disc's got some great high points scattered throughout". The Arizona Daily Star praised the "slight country lopes, lazy blues shouts, unvarnished honky-tonk jams and the occasional bout of impatient guitar skronking."

Track listing

References

1. Higgins, Polly (April 26, 2001). "Artist, radio station at musical confluence". Tucson Citizen. p. L17.
2. Mendoza, Manuel (January 16, 1994). "Plundering Pop's Past". The Dallas Morning News. p. 1C.
3. ^ Lee, Stewart (February 4, 1996). "Raised in Arizona". The Sunday Times. pp. 10, 14.
4. Crisafulli, Chuck (October 16, 1994). "Rock in a Hard Place". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 6.
5. ^ Drozdowski, Ted (August 25, 1994). "Purge and Slouch by Giant Sand". Rolling Stone. No. 689. p. 92.
6. ^ Armstrong, Gene (April 1, 1994). "'Purge and Slouch', the latest album by adventurous band...". Arizona Daily Star. p. 9E.
7. Ohler, Shawn (July 24, 1997). "'Like three radio stations playing at once': Band's style defies description". Edmonton Journal. p. D3.
8. Armstrong, Gene (December 23, 1994). "Normal Records also is responsible...". Arizona Daily Star. p. 9E.
9. ^ Gundersen, Edna (February 21, 1994). "Sandblast". USA Today. p. 8D.
10. Grobaty, Tim (March 6, 1994). "Strong Start for Year's Best CDs". Press-Telegram. p. J1.

• Giant Sand albums
• 1993 albums
• Restless Records albums