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Slim Twig

May 07, 2024

Max Turnbull (born in 1988), better known by his stage name Slim Twig, is a Canadian songwriter, musician, and film actor, who has performed both as a solo artist and as the leader of Badge Époque Ensemble.[1]

Slim Twig
Slim Twig in April 2014
Background information
Birth nameMax Turnbull
Born1988 (age 35–36)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genres
Years active2005–present
Labels
WebsiteSlim Twig.com

He was born the son of Toronto-based filmmakers Ross Turnbull and Jennifer Hazel, and graduated from the Claude Watson School of the Arts in 2006.[2][3]

Twig began self-releasing music in 2005 and eventually earned a deal with Paper Bag Records. His first album under the label was Contempt!, released in 2009. He also worked in the film industry, playing "Billy Zero" in the 2007 film The Tracey Fragments. Other films he has appeared in are Dog Pound and Sight Unseen, in which he played the film's lead character.

Twig co-founded the Calico Corp. record label alongside American-Canadian U.S. Girls. Twig's second album under Paper Bag, Sof' Sike, was released in August 2012. His third studio album, A Hound at the Hem, was released under Calico Corp. three months later. This album was eventually re-released by DFA Records, who signed Twig in 2014. In 2015, he released a cover version of Serge Gainsbourg's "Cannabis" as well as his fourth studio album, Thank You for Stickin' with Twig, both under DFA Records.

He is married to Meghan Remy of U.S. Girls[4] as of 2010, and they operate record label Calico Corp. together.

Film work edit

Slim Twig played 'Billy Zero' in the 2007 film, The Tracey Fragments, directed by Bruce McDonald and starring Elliot Page. Slim was cast as 'Max' in French director Kim Chapiron's film, Dog Pound, set in a juvenile detention centre, and plays the lead character in an independent feature film produced by his parents entitled Sight Unseen, for which he also composed the score.[5][6][7] He has acted in numerous commercial productions and shorts, and scored other films.[8][9] In 2013, he composed the score for the documentary We Come as Friends, directed by Hubert Sauper.[10]

Music edit

Paper Bag Records has released two Slim Twig EPs and two full-length albums. His most recent LP, A Hound at the Hem, was released by his own label, Calico Corp., in conjunction with Pleasence Records.[11] In September 2014, New York–based DFA Records announced that it is re-releasing A Hound at the Hem.[12]

In addition to Slim Twig-branded music, the artist played guitar and sang in the band, Tropics,[13] with Simone TB on drums. In a review of his early Slim Twig EPs, Pitchfork Media stated that Tropics' music is “a feral take on the Birthday Party's blitzkrieg blues.”[14] Tropics is now defunct, having added members and transformed into Darlene Shrugg.[15] Slim Twig has also formerly pursued a solo project called Archaic Women and played as part of a “psychedelic cover band” called Plastic Factory.[16] In 2009, Tropics released a cassette tape entitled SETTE.[17]

The earliest Slim Twig recordings were self-released in 2005 on a CD entitled Livestock Burn, and an EP, Dissonant Folk.[18] Derelict Dialect was the first Slim Twig EP release from Paper Bag Records, in April, 2008. Prior to that, Slim Twig self-released an EP called Whiite Fantaseee.[19] The songs from that recording (save one) were subsequently re-mastered and issued as Vernacular Violence[20] by Paper Bag Records, in August, 2008. Paper Bag later released its two Slim Twig EPs as a limited edition, vinyl LP album.

In 2009, Paper Bag Records released Contempt!, Slim Twig's first, full-length LP. He states that he created the record largely from found sound and samples set against his own vocals.[21] A Now magazine review of the album called it “startlingly unique.”[22] Coinciding with the release of Contempt!, Slim created a free, downloadable “mixtape” EP entitled Spit It Twig! (Vol. 1).[23] Spit it Twig! Vol 2 was issued in the fall of 2009.[24] It was named one of the top downloads of the year by Toronto's alternative weekly magazines.[25][26] The third release in the mixtape series is A Sheik in Scores, issued on cassette and as a download.[27]

Recent work edit

In 2011, Slim Twig professed to a change of direction, stating in an interview with Now magazine that he is "reinventing himself as a 60s pop craftsman."[28] His first foray in this direction was a split recording with U.S. Girls, whose side he co-produced, on FatCat subsidiary label, Palmist Records.[29] The release was well received.[30][31] Slim Twig also produced the two most recent U.S. Girls LPs, U.S. Girls on Kraak and Gem.[32][33]

Slim Twig and U.S. Girls jointly created their own label, Calico Corp., and each artist issued a 7" single as the label's first productions. In addition to co-releasing A Hound at the Hem, Calico Corp. released an EP, Flushing Meats, by Eric Copeland, and most recently, Zacht Automaat, a double LP by the eponymously named Toronto duo.[34]

In August 2012, Paper Bag released their second Slim Twig LP, Sof' Sike, which garnered positive reviews.[35][36] Calico Corp. and Pleasence Records then issued A Hound at the Hem, in November, although it was apparently completed prior to Sof' Sike.[37] While cited as "a pop record that completely forgets it's a pop record.",[38] A Hound at the Hem has elsewhere been effusively praised as "a new masterpiece...one of the best post-glam concept albums not made in the slippery 70s”, and cited as critic Alan Ranta's choice for Canada's prestigious Polaris prize.[39][40] The same writer, in reviewing the album subsequent to DFA's re-release, stated that "Canada dropped the ball, failing to recognize the genius in its own backyard."[41]

On April 20, 2015, Slim Twig released a cover version of the Serge Gainsbourg track "Cannabis", in celebration of 4/20. The cover was released by DFA Records as a limited edition 7" vinyl.[42] A music video for the cover was released exactly one year later.[43] In addition to re-releasing A Hound at the Hem, DFA released Slim Twig's follow-up album, Thank You for Stickin' with Twig, on August 7, 2015.[44]

Critical reception edit

Slim Twig has received considerable, occasionally polarized press coverage (in print and on the internet), with much of it recognizing his unusual adventurousness and artistry.[3][14][45][46][47] In 2008, the artist was called “an icon-in-the-making” and named Toronto's Best Pop/Rock Artist of the year by Now magazine.[48] In a review of the track "Gate Hearing," Exclaim.ca described him as evoking "Jon Spencer's rockabilly punk chic and Genesis P. Orridge's extreme mixed-media weirdness."[49] In a concert review, music columnist Sarah Liss suggested that Slim Twig's music sounds like “what might happen if you left a bunch of Elvis Presley LPs on a radiator, smashed them to bits with a hammer and re-assembled them for play on a turntable. In a word, otherworldly.”[50] He has on more than one occasion, and in a positive context, been called a "pop weirdo".[51] Of his music, one site suggests that "It isn't possible to get more post-modern pop."[52]

Slim Twig's early interest in experimentation appeared to challenge critics looking to situate him in a pop music context.[53] One writer found the songs on Contempt! "like the oddly appropriate soundtracks to confounding four dimensional art installations."[54] Critics also have suggested the influence of cinema on Slim Twig, with one remarking on “is compulsive soliloquist's flair, a direct but static-filled line into a collective cinematic unconscious.”[55] Indeed, in speaking about his creative approach, the artist cited his admiration for David Lynch's work.[56]

Discography edit

All records released as Slim Twig, unless noted otherwise.

  • Livestock Burn (self-released: 2005)
  • Dissonant Folk EP (Aphonia Recordings: 2006)
  • Quilibrate split EP with Huckleberry Friends (self-released: 2006)
  • Whiite Fantaseee EP (self-released: 2007)
  • Derelict Dialect EP (Paper Bag Records: 2008)
  • Vernacular Violence EP (Paper Bag Records: 2008)
  • Derelict Dialect/Vernacular Violence LP (limited edition vinyl) (Paper Bag Records: 2008)
  • Contempt! LP (Paper Bag Records: 2009)
  • Spit It Twig! (Vol.1) EP (digital download: show-released free CD, 2009)
  • Slim Twig Toronto/ Le Corbeau Oslo (7" vinyl split, Best of Both Records, 2009)
  • Spit It Twig! (Vol. 2) EP (digital download: show-released free CD, 2009)
  • Tropics – Sette (limited edition cassette tape/ digital download, Popsick Records, 2009)
  • Archaic Women – The Hit Sixties (limited-edition cassette tape/ digital download, self-released, 2009)
  • A Sheik in Scores (Spit It Twig! (Vol. 3)) (limited-edition cassette tape/ digital download, self-released, 2010)
  • Tropics – Pale Trash (7" vinyl, Pleasence Records, 2011)
  • Bloodstains Across Ontario (7" vinyl compilation, including one song each by Slim Twig and Tropics, Mammoth Cave Recordings, 2011)
  • U.S. Girls/ Slim Twig (12" vinyl split, Palmist Records, 2011)
  • There's a Secret to Your Pleasure (7" single, Calico Corp., 2011)
  • Sof' Sike LP (Paper Bag Records: 2012)
  • Statement (12" vinyl split with U.S. Girls, Dirty Beaches, Ela Orleans, Clan Destine Records, 2012)
  • A Hound at the Hem LP (Calico Corp./ Pleasence Records, 2012; re-released by DFA Records, 2014)
  • Thank You for Stickin' with Twig LP (DFA Records, 2015)

Videos edit

Slim Twig:

  • "Cannabis" – 2016, dir. Alex Kingsmill[43]
  • "Maintain the Charade" – 2014, director (dir.) Meg Remy[57]
  • "All This Wanting" – 2012, dir. Emily Pelstring[58]
  • "Altered Ego" – 2012, dir. George Fok[59]
  • "Gun Shy" – 2012, dir. Slim Twig[60]
  • "Notorious Bride (A Veil & A Vice)" – 2011, dir. Jennifer Hazel[61]
  • "I'll Always be a Child" – 2011, dir. Mitch Fillion[62]
  • "Priscilla" – 2011, dir. Jennifer Hazel[63]
  • "Mansion Haunting" – 2010, dir. David Rendall[64]
  • "Street Proposition" – 2008, dir. Ross Turnbull[65]
  • "Birthing & Birthing" – 2008, dir. Dona Arbabzadeh[66]
  • "Gate Hearing!" – 2007, film/video collaboration with Exploding Motorcar Collective[67]
  • "Where the Dead Are Glorious" – 2008, dir. David Rendall[68]
  • "A Black Hole Is Quite a Lot" – 2006, dir. Dona Arbabzadeh & Slim Twig[69]

Tropics:

  • Enuff – 2007, dir. Ross Turnbull, edited from footage from The Tracey Fragments[70]

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External links edit

  • Slim Twig official site
  • Tropics – MySpace

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slim, twig, turnbull, born, 1988, better, known, stage, name, canadian, songwriter, musician, film, actor, performed, both, solo, artist, leader, badge, Époque, ensemble, april, 2014background, informationbirth, namemax, turnbullborn1988, toronto, ontario, can. Max Turnbull born in 1988 better known by his stage name Slim Twig is a Canadian songwriter musician and film actor who has performed both as a solo artist and as the leader of Badge Epoque Ensemble 1 Slim TwigSlim Twig in April 2014Background informationBirth nameMax TurnbullBorn1988 age 35 36 Toronto Ontario CanadaGenresIndie rockneo psychedeliaart rockYears active2005 presentLabelsDFAPaper BagPalmistCalico Corp PleasenceWebsiteSlim Twig com He was born the son of Toronto based filmmakers Ross Turnbull and Jennifer Hazel and graduated from the Claude Watson School of the Arts in 2006 2 3 Twig began self releasing music in 2005 and eventually earned a deal with Paper Bag Records His first album under the label was Contempt released in 2009 He also worked in the film industry playing Billy Zero in the 2007 film The Tracey Fragments Other films he has appeared in are Dog Pound and Sight Unseen in which he played the film s lead character Twig co founded the Calico Corp record label alongside American Canadian U S Girls Twig s second album under Paper Bag Sof Sike was released in August 2012 His third studio album A Hound at the Hem was released under Calico Corp three months later This album was eventually re released by DFA Records who signed Twig in 2014 In 2015 he released a cover version of Serge Gainsbourg s Cannabis as well as his fourth studio album Thank You for Stickin with Twig both under DFA Records He is married to Meghan Remy of U S Girls 4 as of 2010 and they operate record label Calico Corp together Contents 1 Film work 2 Music 2 1 Recent work 3 Critical reception 4 Discography 5 Videos 6 References 7 External linksFilm work editSlim Twig played Billy Zero in the 2007 film The Tracey Fragments directed by Bruce McDonald and starring Elliot Page Slim was cast as Max in French director Kim Chapiron s film Dog Pound set in a juvenile detention centre and plays the lead character in an independent feature film produced by his parents entitled Sight Unseen for which he also composed the score 5 6 7 He has acted in numerous commercial productions and shorts and scored other films 8 9 In 2013 he composed the score for the documentary We Come as Friends directed by Hubert Sauper 10 Music editPaper Bag Records has released two Slim Twig EPs and two full length albums His most recent LP A Hound at the Hem was released by his own label Calico Corp in conjunction with Pleasence Records 11 In September 2014 New York based DFA Records announced that it is re releasing A Hound at the Hem 12 In addition to Slim Twig branded music the artist played guitar and sang in the band Tropics 13 with Simone TB on drums In a review of his early Slim Twig EPs Pitchfork Media stated that Tropics music is a feral take on the Birthday Party s blitzkrieg blues 14 Tropics is now defunct having added members and transformed into Darlene Shrugg 15 Slim Twig has also formerly pursued a solo project called Archaic Women and played as part of a psychedelic cover band called Plastic Factory 16 In 2009 Tropics released a cassette tape entitled SETTE 17 The earliest Slim Twig recordings were self released in 2005 on a CD entitled Livestock Burn and an EP Dissonant Folk 18 Derelict Dialect was the first Slim Twig EP release from Paper Bag Records in April 2008 Prior to that Slim Twig self released an EP called Whiite Fantaseee 19 The songs from that recording save one were subsequently re mastered and issued as Vernacular Violence 20 by Paper Bag Records in August 2008 Paper Bag later released its two Slim Twig EPs as a limited edition vinyl LP album In 2009 Paper Bag Records released Contempt Slim Twig s first full length LP He states that he created the record largely from found sound and samples set against his own vocals 21 A Now magazine review of the album called it startlingly unique 22 Coinciding with the release of Contempt Slim created a free downloadable mixtape EP entitled Spit It Twig Vol 1 23 Spit it Twig Vol 2 was issued in the fall of 2009 24 It was named one of the top downloads of the year by Toronto s alternative weekly magazines 25 26 The third release in the mixtape series is A Sheik in Scores issued on cassette and as a download 27 Recent work edit In 2011 Slim Twig professed to a change of direction stating in an interview with Now magazine that he is reinventing himself as a 60s pop craftsman 28 His first foray in this direction was a split recording with U S Girls whose side he co produced on FatCat subsidiary label Palmist Records 29 The release was well received 30 31 Slim Twig also produced the two most recent U S Girls LPs U S Girls on Kraak and Gem 32 33 Slim Twig and U S Girls jointly created their own label Calico Corp and each artist issued a 7 single as the label s first productions In addition to co releasing A Hound at the Hem Calico Corp released an EP Flushing Meats by Eric Copeland and most recently Zacht Automaat a double LP by the eponymously named Toronto duo 34 In August 2012 Paper Bag released their second Slim Twig LP Sof Sike which garnered positive reviews 35 36 Calico Corp and Pleasence Records then issued A Hound at the Hem in November although it was apparently completed prior to Sof Sike 37 While cited as a pop record that completely forgets it s a pop record 38 A Hound at the Hem has elsewhere been effusively praised as a new masterpiece one of the best post glam concept albums not made in the slippery 70s and cited as critic Alan Ranta s choice for Canada s prestigious Polaris prize 39 40 The same writer in reviewing the album subsequent to DFA s re release stated that Canada dropped the ball failing to recognize the genius in its own backyard 41 On April 20 2015 Slim Twig released a cover version of the Serge Gainsbourg track Cannabis in celebration of 4 20 The cover was released by DFA Records as a limited edition 7 vinyl 42 A music video for the cover was released exactly one year later 43 In addition to re releasing A Hound at the Hem DFA released Slim Twig s follow up album Thank You for Stickin with Twig on August 7 2015 44 Critical reception editSlim Twig has received considerable occasionally polarized press coverage in print and on the internet with much of it recognizing his unusual adventurousness and artistry 3 14 45 46 47 In 2008 the artist was called an icon in the making and named Toronto s Best Pop Rock Artist of the year by Now magazine 48 In a review of the track Gate Hearing Exclaim ca described him as evoking Jon Spencer s rockabilly punk chic and Genesis P Orridge s extreme mixed media weirdness 49 In a concert review music columnist Sarah Liss suggested that Slim Twig s music sounds like what might happen if you left a bunch of Elvis Presley LPs on a radiator smashed them to bits with a hammer and re assembled them for play on a turntable In a word otherworldly 50 He has on more than one occasion and in a positive context been called a pop weirdo 51 Of his music one site suggests that It isn t possible to get more post modern pop 52 Slim Twig s early interest in experimentation appeared to challenge critics looking to situate him in a pop music context 53 One writer found the songs on Contempt like the oddly appropriate soundtracks to confounding four dimensional art installations 54 Critics also have suggested the influence of cinema on Slim Twig with one remarking on is compulsive soliloquist s flair a direct but static filled line into a collective cinematic unconscious 55 Indeed in speaking about his creative approach the artist cited his admiration for David Lynch s work 56 Discography editAll records released as Slim Twig unless noted otherwise Livestock Burn self released 2005 Dissonant Folk EP Aphonia Recordings 2006 Quilibrate split EP with Huckleberry Friends self released 2006 Whiite Fantaseee EP self released 2007 Derelict Dialect EP Paper Bag Records 2008 Vernacular Violence EP Paper Bag Records 2008 Derelict Dialect Vernacular Violence LP limited edition vinyl Paper Bag Records 2008 Contempt LP Paper Bag Records 2009 Spit It Twig Vol 1 EP digital download show released free CD 2009 Slim Twig Toronto Le Corbeau Oslo 7 vinyl split Best of Both Records 2009 Spit It Twig Vol 2 EP digital download show released free CD 2009 Tropics Sette limited edition cassette tape digital download Popsick Records 2009 Archaic Women The Hit Sixties limited edition cassette tape digital download self released 2009 A Sheik in Scores Spit It Twig Vol 3 limited edition cassette tape digital download self released 2010 Tropics Pale Trash 7 vinyl Pleasence Records 2011 Bloodstains Across Ontario 7 vinyl compilation including one song each by Slim Twig and Tropics Mammoth Cave Recordings 2011 U S Girls Slim Twig 12 vinyl split Palmist Records 2011 There s a Secret to Your Pleasure 7 single Calico Corp 2011 Sof Sike LP Paper Bag Records 2012 Statement 12 vinyl split with U S Girls Dirty Beaches Ela Orleans Clan Destine Records 2012 A Hound at the Hem LP Calico Corp Pleasence Records 2012 re released by DFA Records 2014 Thank You for Stickin with Twig LP DFA Records 2015 Videos editSlim Twig Cannabis 2016 dir Alex Kingsmill 43 Maintain the Charade 2014 director dir Meg Remy 57 All This Wanting 2012 dir Emily Pelstring 58 Altered Ego 2012 dir George Fok 59 Gun Shy 2012 dir Slim Twig 60 Notorious Bride A Veil amp A Vice 2011 dir Jennifer Hazel 61 I ll Always be a Child 2011 dir Mitch Fillion 62 Priscilla 2011 dir Jennifer Hazel 63 Mansion Haunting 2010 dir David Rendall 64 Street Proposition 2008 dir Ross Turnbull 65 Birthing amp Birthing 2008 dir Dona Arbabzadeh 66 Gate Hearing 2007 film video collaboration with Exploding Motorcar Collective 67 Where the Dead Are Glorious 2008 dir David Rendall 68 A Black Hole Is Quite a Lot 2006 dir Dona Arbabzadeh amp Slim Twig 69 Tropics Enuff 2007 dir Ross Turnbull edited from footage from The Tracey Fragments 70 References edit Vish Khanna Badge Epoque Ensemble Badge Epoque Ensemble Exclaim June 10 2019 ONLINE EXCLUSIVE Slim s 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