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"Various Testimonials"

Testimonials for Slim Twig’s Livestock Burn


“He gets the craft of songwriting, and must not be dissuaded – he has many more songs in him for sure! Please keep me in the loop…”
– email from Morgan Lebus, Truckstop Media, NYC


“Slim, I hope you go so far, that you can never go back… Next time we play Toronto, it’s Slim Twig and us for sure.”
- email from Devendra Banhart, Musician, San Francisco


“Max, it’s a good start, keep writing.”
-email from Gord Downie, The Tragically Hip, Toronto


“You got some good stuff to offer, to offer people that listen to music...”
-Dale Morningstar Musician/Producer, Toronto


“His abilities far outreach whatever else I’ve heard lately.”
- email from Stephen Kummerfield, Poet, Toronto


“Max's deliberately random guitar stylings combine with memorable turns of
phrase to create original, meaningful rock'n'roll.”
-email from Tilman Lewis, cellist, regular contributor to Musicworks magazine
- Unpublished


Discography

Livestock Burn LP
Slim Twig/Huckleberry Friends - Quilibrate EP
Dissonant Folk LP (unreleased)

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Bio

Slim Twig is a Toronto based singer/songwriter steeped in the tradition of dark songwriters like Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Lou Reed.

Like David Lynch, Slim Twig trusts his subconcious implicitly! Like Eugene Leroy, Slim Twig likes to mold his art into a bloody slab of beautiful, dissonant collage.

Referencing artists as diverse as Suicide, and Sonic Youth to the Zombies and Brian Eno, Slim Twig's brand of orignal rock is something hard to classify.

Slim Twig is also quite a showman and performer. His live show has been likend to a cross between the theatricality of David Bowie, and the spontaneity of Captain Beefheart. Slim Twig is also an actor and most recently had a supporting lead in Bruce MacDonald's upcoming Tracey Fragments.

Slim Twig has recorded one full album of dark folk entitled Livestock Burn, which also served as soundtrack to the short film Letters From R. He has also released a split EP with Toronto pop experimentalists the Huckleberry Friends, and is currently finishing his second album Dissonant Folk.

Dissonant Folk is quite a departure from Livestock Burn. Many more musical textures interacting with one another, and new lyrical depth are just parts of Slim Twigs current evolution, not to mention more confidence in his singing.

Dissonant Folk was recorded, engineered, mixed and co-produced by Toronto indie legend Dale Morningstar. Slim Twig is excited to unleash his latest upon the world, and optimistic as to where it might go.