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Over 25 years since their last record, pioneering punk act the Slits have recorded a full-length for Narnack Records. The Slits took the late '70s early '80s British punk scene by the balls and ref... Read More

Trapped Animal is the first studio album from the Slits since 1981 and comes 30 years after the seminal punk/reggae fusion of their debut, 1979's Cut. The passage of time and only returning with tw... Read More

Over 25 years since their last record, pioneering punk act the Slits have recorded a full-length for Narnack Records. The Slits took the late '70s early '80s British punk scene by the balls and ref... Read More

Trapped Animal is like a character in one of those body-snatching films. The aliens take someone close to the protagonist – let’s say her mom – and the alien that replaces her is mostly-mom. But ce... Read More

It’d be churlish to expect precocious post-punk priestesses The Slits, teenage underminers of Sex Pistols’ cocky masculinity, to stay caged in the past. The primitive, untutored musical naivety... Read More

The Slits, with their mix of reggae dub and new-wave glam, place themselves at the forefront of the domestic whole-hog feminist picket-line, perhaps a little too eagerly. Lead vocalist Ari Up, step... Read More

"The new album is really just another third recorded album. It's just a continuation of the Slits." That's Ari Up, in a Pitchfork news interview, giving folks a hint on what to expect, or perhaps n... Read More

Thirty years ago The Slits released one of the most genuinely groundbreaking albums of the decade known as the seventies, if not all time. ‘Cut’, their first long player, fused punk roc... Read More

The Slits' place in pop history was assured by 1979's seminal Cut, with its fusion of punk, reggae and teenage vocalist Ari Up's spiky neo-feminist manifestos. No surprise, then, that the group has... Read More

To hear the history books tell it, The Slits were one of London's trailblazing, all-important punk acts in the mid-'70s. To hear Trapped Animal tell it, you'd think the act was a shantytown legend ... Read More