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Wound Architecture
The debut. Recorded in a former industrial laundry facility during its simultaneous demolition. Mixed on community college radio equipment. The sound engineer is credited as "against his will." He has confirmed this credit is accurate.
Opening track "Concrete Syntax" begins with 4½ minutes of a running dishwasher. The band has confirmed this is a running dishwasher. They consider it "essential context." The dishwasher belongs to SLAG's mother.
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SLÖP² (Slop Squared)
The sophomore record. Recorded immediately after an upper Midwest tour in which the band played to an aggregate of 214 people across eleven shows (4 cancelled). SLAG said the tour "clarified things." He has not said which things.
The superscript ² in the title is non-optional. Streaming platforms that cannot render it are described in an official band statement as "hostile to the work." The statement is four paragraphs long and concerns a superscript.
Features the 17-minute centerpiece "Machinery Dreaming of Stillness," in which all five members play simultaneously in different time signatures. One fan described it as "a migraine that meant something." The band used this as a pull quote.
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The Body Is A Failed Engine
A concept album about a man who stops believing in rooms. Across 74 minutes, the protagonist questions whether the space he occupies has ontological validity. The narrative is never resolved. VORX has confirmed there is an ending but "the album is not the place for it."
Influences: a plumbing failure in DRECK's apartment, the complete works of Paul Virilio, a documentary about conveyor belts, and a specific Tuesday in November 1994 that VORX calls "The Tuesday" and will not explain.
Packaging includes a 22-page booklet printed in grey ink on grey paper. Text is readable "with effort," which is the point. A 2019 reprint with improved contrast is available in the merch store. The band has mixed feelings about its legibility.
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SLÖPCØRE
The major-label-adjacent record. Features the band's cleanest production to date, described by the band as "a mistake we made deliberately." The ø in the title is genuine Norwegian. It means nothing in context. It "looked right."
The label requested a single. The band submitted "Aperture of Regret (The Nothing Version)" — 6 minutes 40 seconds of a sustained keyboard note over which VORX reads excerpts from technical manuals for discontinued industrial equipment. It was not released as a single. A legal dispute followed. The album was released anyway.
Spin magazine gave it 4 out of 10. This is considered a victory by the band.
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Transmission From The Collapsed Interior
The final album before the six-year silence. Recorded in three days while VORX had laryngitis, which three of five members considered an artistic improvement. The album cover — a photograph of an empty chair in a grey room — was taken by MAUX without telling anyone. This was discovered during mastering.
Closes with "The Last Machinery" — 22 minutes long, builds to what sounds like an explosion, then continues for 8 more minutes as if the explosion did not happen. The post-explosion section is credited in the liner notes as "(continued)."
Pitchfork gave it a 7.2. After the review, the band did not speak to each other for six years. This may or may not be related.
SLAG CALLED DRECK ON CHRISTMAS 2002. THIS IS CONSIDERED THE REUNION.
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We Were Not Gone
The reunion record. Six years. 22 minutes. Nine tracks. The shortest is 47 seconds of VORX exhaling over a feedback tone. The band considered calling it The Return but felt this "implied they had left." DRECK noted: "That's not quite true." The argument was not resolved before the title was finalized.
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Live at The Grate Room, Akron — November 14, 1995 (The Bad One)
A bootleg officially sanctioned on one condition: the subtitle "(The Bad One)" must appear on all formats, in all promotional materials, and in the Bandcamp title field. The band wanted the audience to know. The audience (all 31 of them) already knew.
The Grate Room's PA system was "functionally inadequate" per the band's rider. The show was performed anyway. Attendees experienced primarily the drums and fog. VORX has called this "the most honest performance of our career." The recording captures this honesty in full.
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SLÖP: The Corroded Signals 1993–1997
A career retrospective the band approved on the condition they write all liner notes. The liner notes are 8,000 words and address, in order: the inadequacy of retrospectives, the humidity of the laundry facility, an unresolved dispute between VORX and DRECK that is referenced but not explained, SLAG's engineering degree, and a two-page acknowledgment section listing only first names followed by "you know why."