STREAM: The Slits - Ask Ma
No band ever was more squarely at the intersection of punk and reggae than the Slits. Was? Sorry, is—chief agitator Ari Up (see if you can guess which one she is) has had the pioneering ’70s/’80s group back in action for a while now, alongside original Slit Tessa Pollitt and three younger disciples. Now they’ve chiseled their return into stone, with their first new album in more than 25 years, Trapped Animal, coming on Narnack in early October. The record nicely maps the band’s original stylistic moves onto modern cartography, like this’n, “Ask Ma,” with its buzzing, snaky bassline and chanted exasperations.
