Slothrust keep true to themselves on their irresistible heavy rendition of Ginuwine’s traditional “Pony,” delivering a sizzling n’ sweaty cowl that hits arduous and aches in all the fitting locations.

Stream: “Pony” – Slothrust

Should you’re sexy, let’s do it, journey it, my pony. My saddle’s waitin’, come and bounce on it…

Boston’s Slothrust have all the time despatched chills up and down our backbone, however nobody might have predicted this sweltering seduction. The lead single and opening observe to their newest EP is a tantalizing fever dream: Heavy drums churn a sluggish and thunderous beat as fiery guitars rage and roar round one of the well-known bass strains in R&B historical past. The scene is electrical, the air thick with pressure as Leah Wellbaum sings the acquainted phrases, “I’m only a bachelor, I’m on the lookout for a associate – somebody who is aware of journey with out even falling off…”

And off they go.

Slothrust keep true to themselves on their irresistible rendition of Ginuwine’s traditional “Pony,” delivering a sizzling n’ sweaty cowl that hits arduous and aches in all the fitting locations.

I’m only a bachelor
I’m on the lookout for a associate
Somebody who is aware of journey
With out even falling off

Gotta be suitable takes me to my limits
Woman once I break you off
I promise that you simply gained’t wanna get off

An prompt standout off Slothrust’s (pronounced “sloth-rust”) just lately launched EP I Promise, “Pony” is provocative, evocative, and totally all-consuming: A canopy for the ages. The Boston band comprised of Leah Wellbaum (vocals, guitar) and Will Gorin (drums) are not any strangers to the covers recreation: Their 2017 covers album Present Me How You Need It to Be performed host to seven songs unfold throughout the musical spectrum, together with Al Inexperienced’s “Let’s Keep Collectively,” Britney Spears’ “Child One Extra Time,” and an intoxicating interpretation of Marcy Playground’s “Intercourse and Sweet.”

Atwood Journal’s Alex Killian referred to as it an journey of music via Slothrust’s lens: “Slothrust do an unimaginable job of conserving the final sound and emotion of every authentic track in tact on the EP. Their specific sound and melancholy character nonetheless comes via clearly, with out ever sounding compelled.”

Our objective in masking songs is all the time to recontextualize them and provide them with a contrasting spirit to the unique.

And but, it’s been a couple of years since Slothrust gave their spin to another person’s songwriting; the intervening years have seen them dazzling via studio albums The Pact (2018) and Parallel Timeline (2021), the latter of which Atwood Journal‘s Dimitra Gurduiala referred to as “a mysterious, hypnotic document about spirituality and need for freedom.”

“Pony” is a pleasant shock – one which makes our hair stand on finish and sends shivers down the backbone as Slothrust channel Ginuwine’s lyrics and melodies via a “maximalist arduous rock” wash and a queer lens, full with scorching guitar and drum solos. The bones stay the identical: You possibly can sing alongside in your first hear, getting misplaced within the euphoria and ecstasy of this rapturous reverie.

Should you’re sexy, let’s do it, journey it, my pony
My saddle’s waitin’, come and bounce on it
Should you’re sexy, let’s do it, journey it, my pony
My saddle’s waitin’, come and bounce on it

For Wellbaum and Gorin, masking this track was a no brainer. “We grew up listening to plenty of ’90s R&B, and this observe was all the time one in all our favorites,” they share. “It’s so daring and absolutely commits to the metaphor whereas conserving it consensually kinky. We love this degree of dedication and needed to match it.”

We requested ourselves the query, how heavy and flashy can we make this observe with out dropping the pocket?

Sitting right here flossing
Peeping your steelo
Simply as soon as if I’ve the prospect
The issues I’d do to you
You and your physique, each single portion
Ship chills up and down your backbone
Juices flowing down your thigh

Should you’re sexy, let’s do it, journey it, my pony
My saddle’s waitin’, come and bounce on it
Should you’re sexy, let’s do it, journey it, my pony
My saddle’s waitin’, come and bounce on it

Atwood Journal caught up with Slothrust to listen to all about how they received again within the saddle and introduced this “Pony” to life. Get misplaced within the candy seduction of this arousing cowl, and take heed to Slothrust’s model new EP, I Promise – that includes 4 (that’s proper, 4!) completely different variations of “Pony,” a double-bass heavy cowl of “Someplace Over the Rainbow,” and two equally breathtaking new authentic tracks, “Perhaps Perhaps” and “Magic Glow”!

If we’re gonna get nasty child
First we’ll present and inform
Until I attain your ponytail
Lurk throughout and thru you child
Till we attain the stream
You’ll be on my jockey workforce

Should you’re sexy, let’s do it, journey it, my pony
My saddle’s waitin’, come and bounce on it

Should you aren’t scared and feeling no less than barely erotic, we’ve not hit it fairly best for you.

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Stream: ‘I Promise’ – Slothrust

A CONVERSATION WITH SLOTHRUST

Atwood Journal: Welcome again, Slothrust! Nice to listen to you making such an iconic track as “Pony” your individual. However why this track?

Slothrust: We each grew up listening to a ton of hip-hop and R&B. We’re from the Boston space and JAM’N 94.5 was an extremely essential radio station for me. I even satisfied my dad to take me to Monster Jam Pageant once I was eleven and it was a catastrophe as a result of a lot of that music was not age applicable. We love so many songs from this period, however this observe actually stood out to us due to how dedicated it’s to the horse metaphor. It’s kinky, consensual, and completely sudden.

I did the maths, and this track is 27 years outdated. I undoubtedly really feel just like the ‘90s are having a renaissance – looks as if ever since Olivia Rodrigo got here on the scene, there’s slightly grunge in all of the “pop” popping out of LA – however capturing the spirit and vitality of this track specifically is a unique beast. How did you go about making “Pony” your individual?

Slothrust: We needed to serve a maximalist arduous rock model of this iconic track via a queer lens. We requested ourselves the query, how heavy and flashy can we make this observe with out dropping the pocket? Curiosity is a part of what retains us making music. I like to reply a query with a track.

What’s it about this track – the sound, the story, the lyrics, the Ginuwine of all of it – that resonated for you in selecting this observe?

Slothrust: This track appears to occupy a really specific area in peoples’ recollections. We don’t know precisely what that area is for every particular person, however we needed to see how it will really feel if we supplied this model to the collective.

One of many issues I immediately felt out of your cowl was that it felt like a reclamation of types. How would you describe it?

Slothrust: Heavy, horny, scary, guitar solos, drum fills. This observe is supposed to appeal and alarm you and for those who aren’t scared and feeling no less than barely erotic, we’ve not hit it fairly best for you and that’s positive. To every their very own!

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