Photos and words by Rosi Lamela
Last Sunday I took a trip down to Asbury Lanes to check out one of my all time favorite bands, Slothrust. Slothrust is one of those bands that randomly came up on one of my curated Spotify playlists a few years back and I always include them on the list of bands to check out when I’m asked about new music. Their latest release Parallel Timeline came out last year and it’s a little different than some of their older stuff. I wasn’t sure how I felt about it till I heard them play it live.
Calva Louise opened the show, and the extremely humble Jess Allanic expressed her gratitude to have the opportunity to tour the US as she described it as a dream of hers. Their music is very reminiscent of some of the Latin rock bands I’ve heard throughout my childhood and they rocked out pretty hard with songs sung in both English and Spanish.
Then came an amazing performance from Slothrust. They mixed their set with songs from various albums spanning their decade-long career. Leah Wellbaum is extremely talented and it’s something you realize even more from their live performance. Sometimes her silly lyrics make you forget that she has an amazing voice and when you see her live you also get to witness impressive guitar solos. I am more biased towards their harder songs as they remind me of ’90s grunge music, but the pop influence of their latest albums are pretty catchy as well.
It was not a large crowd unfortunately, but the audience sang along throughout the show. They played all of my favorite songs like “7:30 AM”, “Magnets, Pt.2”, “Planetarium”, and my favorite song of all, “Crockpot”. Slothrust is currently in the middle of their US tour that they’ll be wrapping up at the end of April. See all of their upcoming tour dates here. Check out their music video for “One More For The Ocean” (from Parallel Timeline) below and keep scrolling to see more photos from the show.
