Slippers mastermind Madeline BB’s new record is a masterpiece. Like if you painted the beatles with a rattle can and wax pencil. Powerhouse of pop, this Karen Carpenter incarnate is fresh off. Slippers last record entitled “Do You Like Slippers?” More aptly it should have been “Do You Like Pop Music?” Because if the answer is no to either then what are we even doing here? If you aren't humming this after two listens are you even alive?

In addition to being a longtime drummer who also performs in Le Pain and has previously played in Yucky Duster, BB’s other passion is animation, and the start of Slippers coincides with her time studying that trade in grad school at California Institute of the Arts. The band began in earnest in BB’s current home of Los Angeles but her love of animation and music go back to her childhood in Atlanta, Georgia.

Beneath the TV static skies of Cleveland, Ohio, four gentlemen armed with their hearts and their instruments stand tall and slightly hunched. Carrying the names of saints and varying degrees of trauma, Youth Pallet attempts to reconcile the human condition through rock music. Building upon the foundation of the Midwestern folk-y songwriting of Nick Seink, and the tastefully meticulous rhythmic-backbone of Steve Kessler’s drumming, Youth Pallet season their unmistakable brand of rock music like four gourmet chefs. Under lyrics contemplating the timeless journey of personhood in a chaotic, morally-ambiguous age, David “Ziggy” D’Amato decorates and highlights these existential conflicts with soaring leads and uplifting vocal harmonies. While Tyler Adams bounces and weaves like a heavyweight boxing champion in the low end of his groovy bass lines. These four elements unite in an explosion of a unique energy that embodies the unbearable pain of being human; while embracing the healing love of experience and relationships.