PICK IT UP is the latest and greatest release from the emerging art-punk savants,The Slats.The energetic trio has been building momentum since it started touring the US in support of its critically acclaimed 2002 album, THE GREAT PLAINS OF SAN FRANCISCO on The Tyros Label.

Having graduated from home-recordings to the studio, the band’s experimental indie-rock hasn’t been stripped of any of its skronk. Rather, the Slats have boisterously made the studio their new home, and PICK IT UP (Latest Flame Records) is destined to launch these underground up-and-comers onto the national scene.

Original Slat Brian Cox (Vocals, guitar) has clearly found his song writing team with more recent Slat additions Jon Hansen (guitar, vocals) and Mark Tietjen (drums). The band is divided by distance with members in Minneapolis, MN and Iowa City, IA but the song writing process hasn’t suffered. Instead, the result is a cache of songs, rich in pop sensibility, that turn on a dime into unexpected directions just when you think you have them figured out. Then, they trim off the fat, turn up the volume, and start throwing ideas at you as fast as you can take them.

Brian Cox – vocals, bass
Jon Hansen – guitar, vocals
Mark Tietjen – drums