Moveys is the debut studio album by American indie rock band Slow Pulp. 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
extended play,
Big Day (2019), Slow Pulp signed a record deal with Winspear and began
Concert tour with
Alex G.
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
Lyme disease and chronic mononucleosis. In March 2020, Massey returned to her hometown, Madison, Wisconsin, after her parents were injured in an automobile crash.
Shortly after, the COVID-19 pandemic forced people to go into lockdown; 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
Remote work.
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
North America tour, which started on November 4, 2021, in Madison, Wisconsin.
Critical reception
Moveys received positive reviews from critics. At
Metacritic, which assigns a
Standard score rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 74, based on six reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Writing for Paste, 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".
Track listing
All tracks were written by Alexander Leeds, Emily Massey, Henry Stoehr, and Theodore Mathews.
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New Horse2:00
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Trade It2:52
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Idaho4:05
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Track3:34
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At It Again2:03
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Channel 22:25
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Whispers (In The Outfield)1:49
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Falling Apart2:46
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Montana3:20
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Movey1:21
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