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Category: Music

Album Review in RIP IT UP April/May 2008

Slipping Tongue

My Kingdom Falls (Finest Hour Records/ Global Routes Distrib)

***** (5 Stars!)

” A slab of sheer brilliance, My Kindom Falls is pure listening pleasure. A concept Album of sorts with some beautifully powerful songs well weaved together. Moody and huge with sweeping themes, this album is well recorded and certainly highlights the incredible talents of the vocalist Jennie Skulander. ’Fixx’ pushes all the right buttons right from the start with the line ” You talk of me as if I’m gifted” which you’ll be singing all day. ’Swallow the Sword’ is a catchy driven rock track, again with a hell of a hooky melody. ’Bitter’ is a great single already getting lots of airply on C4 and Alt. Slipping Tongue take themsleves very seriously and have done a seriously good job with this album. Divided into four chapters My Kingdom Falls is a journey through four emotion and angst charged seasons. From sweetness to gravel, anger to reason, the band have a firm grip on the importance of dynamics and playing with feel. Insistant drumming motivates and grooves the songs to life and some killer guitar tones colour them. but its the purity and beauty of the vocals that will stop you in your tracks. Alluring and compelling, the songs have real heart and soul. Slipping Tongue Tour alot, work hard, have a missive fan base as well as an unshakable belief in their own talent. They have also done everything themsleves with no help from the ’industry’ - including funding their own recordings and videos. The band have exactly what it takes to be huge, its just a matter of time until an offshore record company signs them up. This album is epic, a masterpiece that deserves its rightful place as one of NZs best rock releases.”

- The Axeman

I particularly love the last line yay! I got to help with that

Another cool piece of news is that Slipping Tongue opened for Coheed and Cambria last week and they apparently sold more Albums at that show than Coheed did!!! Even the Coheed and Cambria Sound Engineer brought the Album! ROCK. lol.