Freak Slug announces Loose Tooth And A Short Skirt EP out Nov 7 via Future Classic, shares new single ‘Honest Man’
PRAISE FOR Freak Slug
“A perfect chord of weird and charming that feels fitting for her band’s peculiar name. The result is silly, entertaining, and truthful enough you'll wish you could live in Genovese’s head”
“‘I Blow Out Big Candles’ is a bold and assured statement, blending pop hooks with a sense of nocturnal longing. The result is a grungy set of eccentric love songs built for the hopeless romantics out there”
“An ear for melody that gives these tracks something tangible to hang onto within the haze”
“The unpredictability and sass across the album makes for a gripping ride. Freak Slug has delivered a party where everyone’s invited – just don’t be surprised if things get weird by midnight”
Loose Tooth And A Short Skirt EP
Nov 7 via Future Classic
PRE-SAVE HERE
‘Honest Man’ is out now, buy/stream it here.
One of the UK’s leading new voices Freak Slug has shared her latest single ‘Honest Man’ ahead of her debut Australian dates this October alongside SXSW Sydney. Lifted from her next EP, Loose Tooth And A Short Skirt out on Nov 7 via Future Classic. LISTEN HERE + PRE-SAVE EP HERE + TICKETS HERE.
The project of multi-disciplinarian Xenya Genovese from Manchester, Freak Slug is already the stuff of legend. Major dates touring across the UK and US, over 52 million career streams to her name, sessions across SXSW Austin to live sessions with KEXP, Audiotree and more fortified her debut album I Blow Out Big Candles in late 2024 – a statement that cemented her position as an unpredictable and immediately resonant artist in the alternative rock space.
Today’s ‘Honest Man’ continues her brand of charming oddity. Deftly able to maintain the genre’s essentials, Freak Slug amplifies the basics by thrusting forward with indirect details – an opening sample of her father speaking, glimmering horns and synths that wash in and away, guitar distortion – hero’d with effortless acoustic strumming, electrifying ‘Honest Man’s emotionally charged nature.
Genovese reveals, “I wrote Honest Man when I was in LA in the sunshine about six months after breaking up with my partner. I also quote my dad, which again is relating to the male vibe, the masculine energy and repetitive cycles of patterns you can make. I had a lot of fun making this song, clapping in the studio and doing a lot of experimentation. On this EP in general, I’m leaning into a more acoustic chord vibe mixed with a nice sharp electric lead.”
Speaking to the recalibration that comes from time after a break up, Xenya’s approach on ‘Honest Man’ just as her words and ethos prove – “It’s isolating when you think like we do / simple minds, simple life / that could never be us” – while breaking genre form isn’t atypical, where Freak Slug shines is how she maneouvers exploratory arrangements. Littering subtle etchings that reap added wonder and without complexity for the sake of it highlights her enduring conversion of new fans and audiences wherever she slinks to.
Everything that pummels Freak Slug’s artistic approach is indebted to raw, authentic, sometimes weird but always totally true self-expression. It’s all about hitting a mood. A self professed introverted extrovert, the shapeshifter has already debuted a singular world of chaotic beauty, lo-fi charm and tongue-in-cheek punk irreverence fusing grunge, dream pop and bratty pop into a hybrid of something entirely new yet eerily familiar.
Coming alive on stage, Freak Slug is set to promise a surreal, emotionally charged trip through her brilliantly bizarre mind. Thrilling, off-kilter and hypnotically chaotic. Read: a must see experience for an artist who continues to dream big.
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