Wingtip Sloat’s slashing and arty post-punk sounds weirdly contemporary these days, so what better news than to have their first new music in almost 20 years! Purge and Swell is a 12” 45RPM mini LP with 10 new tracks, and is accompanied by a 76-minute bonus CD Lost Decade with 31 additional tracks. The 12” includes plenty of the trebly guitar blare and low-fi charm immediately familiar from the group’s classic early 90’s singles, backstopping winning and memorable tunes like “Stars Bailed Out” and “Gizzard Jett.” The bonus CD includes bric-a-brac from the Sloat rehearsal room, with found poetry, perfect 90 second rockers (the DC-specific “Cruisin’ The Ellipse”), confusing instrumental detours, and winsome covers of Eno, Dylan, Wire, Belle & Sebastian and more. LP cut by Golden, Audiophile pressing by RTI in California. CD is in its own color sleeve. Includes download!