About us…

DISCLAIMER #1: Current backcatalogue of promos is 4 months. We listen to every single promo sent, hence the delay. Please bear with us.

DISCLAIMER #2: Streams are not reviewed. MP3s are okay. If you think we’ll be pirating them, feel free to watermark them. CDs are accepted too but it’s not compulsory. Thank you.

Sloucher is a collaborative blog about music, the arts and anything else that takes our fancy. Sloucher is edited and mostly made up by the inane rants of a certain Sam Valdés López, with a healthy rota of writers from all around the net. We don’t pay but we can bribe them with false promises of sweets and Jaffa cakes (hmm, jaffa cakes)…

We also specialise on being late with reviews, backhanded compliments and possibly liking stuff more than it deserves. Eh, it beats being another Pitchfork wannabe.

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A round of applause to Lety Rodriguez de San Miguel Arevalo for making our logo. She’s a great graphic designer.

Staff

Sam (Editor, reviewer, photographer, office monkey, etc)

An eternal lost soul from México, Sam has worked for telecommunication companies, oil companies, environmental consultancies and frankly, he’s had it with the scum of the world. So the world of reviewing it is, then. While not spamming here and several other places, he’s (supposedly) doing a PhD, “playing” a guitar (connected through a microKorg, natch!) and trying to perfect his Mancunian accent (no, still not getting it). Actually, the microKorg is now broken, so boo to that too. Two sandwiches short of a picnic.

Orestes (Milk, insults)

Our amazing fast-hoofed online expert. We pay him in soy-based milk and kitchen knives. It (we don’t know if it’s a she or a he) likes to drink mead, buckfast and the occasional shot of peanut vodka. When not doing tech stuff for the Zine, Orestes leads its own religion, The Cult of Cowdonia (join him!). A shop that well stocked is the closest we all are to proving that there is a Heaven. And it smells of alcohol, baby. Y cuando se le acaba la inspiración, se ponde a despiporrar cosas nomás pa echar desmadre. LOST IN ACTION.

Simimon (a.k.a. Miller) (Webcomic)

Real bio coming soon! Suffice to say, he draws the webcomics, lives in a coffee shop 24/7 and routinely test-crashes his car. His drawing style is mainly manga, but decided to branch out for webcomics. Any feedback is always welcomed (although might not be taken into account for a while).

Alivon (Webcomic)

Our very trusty comic book inker and dialogue-balloon-maker, she enjoys a good movie, and re-shaping the universe from her Wacom Tablet. She’s not an actual chocolate, but she’s quite sweet.

Guests (aka current slaves people that write for us)

Keefy (reviewer, bass master, lover of post rock, all around top fella)

Things you should know:

• How did it get to 2012?
• Old, so knows nearly everything.(So don’t argue)
• Bloody musical snob.
• Loves the ’60’s but not stuck there.
• Plays bass guitar.
• Paints pictures.
• Likes the odd book.
• Often found wandering the hills in the Peak District.
• Has a love/hate relationship with his facial hair.
• Happy.
• ps. DO NOT BUY THIS MAN WHISKY.

Nicky Crewe (reviewer, writer, Legend)

Fuzz Caminski (Writer, reviewer, drinker of tea)

Fuzz Caminski was born at an early age to humans. He spent too much of my time at Uni in Leeds and too little time becoming a proper grown up, member of society. Luckily his History degree taught him one thing more than any other, it’s not about proving you’re right, it’s about proving the other person is wrong! He openly admits to being a ‘lovable Bastard’. He does not like radio DJ’s who interject their monologues with the phrase ‘right, listen’, as clearly he already is listening, he has to be, it’s the very nature of the medium they’re broadcasting on! He like good coffee and peeling the plastic screen cover off of gadgets. He is often found swearing at the orange commercials in cinemas before the movie begins. Also, the following statements are accurate about the man-child; a reader of comics, drinker of tea, eater of sandwiches, listener of music, do-er of things and being a maker of lists!

Ashley Scrace (Writer, reviewer, exile)

Born in a rundown part of Kent, raised in decadent Hastings, and banished to the working-class North, it seemed as if Ashley’s path to Hell was set.

Yet three-years studying Journalism at the University of Sheffield changed his life. A Journalist, writer, musician, veggie, and “60-year-old trapped inside the body of a Colin Firth wannabe”, Ashley now resides in Portsmouth with his beautiful girlfriend, his collection of musical instruments, and his imaginary friend, Winston.

(Ok, so we made the last bit up)

“I’m proud of where I’ve come from,” he says. “Makes me realise that things can only get better, and it prepares you well for homelessness – or ‘living in Portsmouth’ as it is otherwise known.”

Surreal, misanthropic, and often mercurial, Ashley is an odd character to many. Never talk to this man about reality TV, how London is the best city in the world, or use the word ‘epic’ in his presence. Any such aggravation will provoke a stern, burbling, British telling off. You have been warned.

Russ Palmer (Writer, monkey wrangler)

Russ is the singer and guitarist for Sheffield band The Unfortunate Incident. Russ has a gorilla called Pow-Pow in his shed that he has taught to have a sign language vocabulary of over 2000 words. Russ transcribes Pow-Pow‘s ramblings and passes them off as his own work. Russ is a plagiarising no-talent bastard. Now feck off and fetch me a banana.

Mikaela Shafer (Writer, reviewer)

Mama, crafter and food snob. She wears shiny pants and bakes fresh baked bread and listens to 60′s french pop.  She lives in a tiny bungalow in Utah and spends her nights cuddling with her bff and girl child and watching documentaries on sharks. You can get more info from all things cool in Ogden at her blog, Indie Ogden.

Caitlin White (reviewer, snazzy dresser)

Caitlin is a lover of old things. Although she recently wasted several hundred thousand dollars on three degrees, she currently is an intern at Spin Magazine and works at a restaurant to actually pay rent. The main thing she cares about is music but she has also been known to have extreme emotions about vintage clothes, graphic design, poetry, perfume, cowboy boots, cobblestone & old bricks. She recently moved to Brooklyn and originally hails from Portland, Oregon. She enjoys writing about music for several blogs, including GoldFlakePaint, Listen Before You Buy, Musical Math and if she can get her shit together, her own blog Bleecker Street Beat. Also, if you say anything bad about Bob Dylan to her, she’ll probably stop being your friend.

Abigail Evans (reviewer, Journalistic soldier of fortune)

Abigail Evans – an enigma, wrapped in a Journalism Studies degree, wrapped in a fur coat, dipped in vodka and sprinkled lightly with surrealism.

Joseph McArthur Field (reviewer, stylish banjo)

Joseph is undergoing social rehabilitation following an epiphanic episode, where he fell out of love with pretty much everything. He now spends his time pretending aliens are real and writing about them, playing archaic and exotic instruments (or pretending to play them), and talking to himself without getting caught.
Other past-times he enjoys include lying to hairdressers about what he does for a living, anointing strangers’ dogs with peanut butter he’s hidden about his person, and smiling enigmatically when people talk to him about serious subjects.
Joe used to play the five-string banjo in The Griner Brothers and The Payroll Union, and occasionally still plays the damn instrument with art-country shitcore duo The Mason-Dixon Line Powergrab. He has a Tumblr, and can often be found penning tripe of the highest order at The Agoraphobic Reviewer.

Lizzie Palmer (reviewer, violin prodigy)

Jonny Sock (deviant, agony aunt)

Previous collaborators.

Homo Rodans (Writer, reviewer, antipoet)

Alex Rucki (Writer, reviewer)

Tonan (Editor, reviewer)

Pippa (PM) – (Editor, reviewer, writer)

Tommy Blank (Writer)

LalaUsagi (reviewer)

Grace Crook (reviewer)

Quinto (reviewer, bellend)

Misky (reviewer, alcoholic)

Jimmy Jazz (reviewer, Castleton superhero)

Coral Williamson (reviewer, videogame prodigy)

*The reason we don’t talk about politics and religion (and this includes atheism/agnostics/pastafarians) is because we ain’t giving any of them free publicity (good or bad). Ta.

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editors (at) sloucher.org