New compilation from Executive Slacks out now: SIDE A I Don’t Know What To Do Radiation Baby Boring Semi-Boring 30 Years (Original) Inside/Out SIDE B Filet Mignon Join the Army, Johnny Who Am I? I Bang My Head (Against the Wall) They Read I’m Coming (Bedroom Version) FLEXI DISC (SIDE C) I’m Coming (Live on WXPN 1980) Executive Slacks began in the hot, humid summer of 1980 Philadelphia by Matt Marello, John Young and Albert Ganss, three bored, broke, anxious art students. Starting out with performance art in subways, they soon took their angst-ridden act to galleries and night clubs. The band found their moniker in a run-down bookstore after seeing an ad for men’s polyester pants. They pieced together sounds that captured the growing paranoia of an age predicted by Orwell and the growing inequalities of the 1980s. In 2014 we reissued their 4-song debut EP from 1982 and ... READ MORE
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