Val Emmich - Slow Down Kid [Red Ink]

With some more time to think about it and some more money to spend thanks to a major label record contract, Val Emmich re-works his debut album Slow Down Kid, jettisoning four songs ("Selfish Blues," "Black It Out," "Panic Attack," "Rat Race") in favor of four newly written ones ("Medical Display," "Bury Me," "Separate Things," "The Patient Patient"), replacing a lot of drum tracks, and getting a hot remix by Tom Lord-alge. (Since the resulting disc is less than 36 minutes long, it's hard to see why the new songs weren't just added instead of being substituted.) But the same overall style remains. Read More