Sluice bring Companion to Tubby’s with Hiding Places

Sluice play Tubby’s in Kingston, New York on 12 May with Hiding Places, giving the day a strong indie-folk and alt-country live-news item. The show is tied to Sluice’s third album Companion, their first for Mtn Laurel Recording Co., and the venue’s description gives the record a clear emotional arc.

Sluice began as the project of Durham, North Carolina songwriter Justin Morris, but now functions as a four-piece with Morris joined by Oliver Child-Lanning, Avery Sullivan and Libby Rodenbough. Companion follows 2023’s Radial Gate, an album shaped by isolation, carpentry jobs, disillusionment and questions about whether music still made sense as a life path.

Companion appears to answer that uncertainty not with easy triumph, but with the idea that music’s real dream may be companionship rather than escape. Recorded with producer/engineer Alli Rogers at Sylvan Esso’s Betty’s studio and slowly tended over two years, the record sounds rooted in patience, friendship and survival. Event/source: https://www.tubbyskingston.com/calendar