Wingtip Sloat-Half Past I Got (1992)


 

Artist: Wingtip Sloat

Title: Half Past I've Got

Label: VHF/Sweet Portable Junket

Format:  2X7"

Cat  No. 8

Year of Release: 1992

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1992 1,000 press, no two the same

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 5/24/22

Sell Price: $4.99

Discogs Last Sold:5/29/22 M/M $5.99

Low: $1.50

Median: $4.00

Average: $4.07

High: $6.00

Current low price:$3.12

Current Number on Sale at Discogs:11

Have/Want: 171/43

Where Sold: Maplewood, NJ

Time it took to sell: 7 years

Where and When Bought:In Your Ear Allston, MA sounds right

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+

Sad To See It Go: No

Wingtip Sloat from Falls Church, VA,  were on the lips of many in the early 90's.  I had this double single and another one bought when they came out.  They seemed cooler than they were.   A bunch of "songs" crammed onto 4 sides.  Pavement without the pop. Sebadoh without the assured psychoanalysis (or hardcore roots). Arts fartsy all the way with an occasional burst of indie rock jangle.  They do have a cool cover of Sun City Girls "Kill The Klansman" from the Horse Cock Phepner album that was a 1987 radio airplay mainstay for me.

Apparently Wingtip Sloat didn't release anything after this band, but members came from a unit called Empty Box. The co-"label" Sweet Portable Junket issued a cassette career retrospective of theirs from the later half of the 80's. 

 For whatever reason, even after multiple listens I find Wingtip Sloat "difficult, easy listening."  Meaning it isn't so noisy and unpleasant you can't make it background music, but  it easily becomes background music if you aren't careful.  Difficult in maintaining focus over 4 cramped 7 inch sides or a 26 minute stream.

Revolutions sometimes fail after all.

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