"Songwriter and lead singer Caitlin Sherman has a clear, haunting voice that drew me deep into the music at first listen. I love the way it never stays the same between songs, instead moving between delicate and powerful from track to track. It blends perfectly with the band's eerie brand of indie-pop, and brings to mind voices like St. Vincent and Feist. Strings, toy piano, autoharp, and glockenspiel punctuate the finely crafted pop tunes, giving them a woozy, carnival-like feel." MEG RUDDICK, NPR's All Songs Considered

"Add Seattle band Slow Skate to the lineage of hazy, glacially-moving, female-led bands that includes Mazzy Star, Cowboy Junkies, and, more recently, the Sub Pop-signed duo Beach House. Singer Caitlin Sherman has a clean, Valium-calm voice that unfolds with surprising range and emotion - warm and heavy one moment, ghostly light the next. The band's songs are appropriately unhurried, reverb-treated, and vintage-sounding, all grainy, time-keeping drums, wavering and twangy guitars, and accents of piano or harpsichord. This is stretch-out-and-wait sort of stuff, not for the ADD-inclined, but it doesn't plod so much as make a virtue of slowness, Sherman's lingering syllables perfectly enacting the aching and longing hinted at in her lyrics." ERIC GRANDY, Seattle Weekly

"Slow Skate singer Caitlin Sherman...has the control and uneasy grace of Portishead's Beth Gibbons, but she makes that unease sound effortless with her exacting shrill...Slow Skate's shadowed minor compositions are filtered with electronics...and the resonant shuffle of brush-glitched drums...a gathered and bold offering, a slow fade for your lulling." TRENT MOORMAN, The Stranger

"There's something really sexy about Seattle's Slow Skate. But it's the sad, doomed kind of sexy - similar in vibe to Air's The Virgin Suicides soundtrack. On "One to Remember," a ukulele's usually happy sound is offset by slow, weeping guitar and Caitlin Sherman's dreamy vocals about drowning in whiskey." MEGAN SELING, The Stranger

"Posh, pining aesthetic that matches peat-burnt folk-blues with sensual dark-lounge tunes. With Count the Days With Me, they achieve a whole new level of album-art. On tracks like "Aurora" you can slink into the soft, blissy vocals from Caitlin as they are caressed firmly by noirish surf and spy riffs from husband Jason's baritone guitar. Their new full-time third man, Rob, perfects the album to soundtrack level immersion, and live helps out with even more delightful analog organ and drum loops, and more of that swanky guitar than before." CHRIS ESTEY, Three Imaginary Girls

"(Past the Whole Parade) is Slow Skate's second album, one that's full of surprises: one track will feature tinkly toy piano, and then the thing will switch gears completely and charge right into rock guitar and heavy, thudding percussion on the next. The binding thread is Caitlin Sherman's voice, which can be lilting and sweet or throaty and sensual, but is always mesmerizing." SARA BRICKNER, Seattle Weekly's Reverb

"In the case of local band Slow Skate, the title on the cover aptly describes the contents: their soft-spoken, darkly alluring indie pop is perfect for the last couples skate of the night, nervous and sweaty-palmed orbits illuminated by a mirrorball. It's a style of music you may not have heard for a while; think Portishead, The Innocence Mission or Mazzy Star with a thin stripe of shoegazer drama running through." GEOFF CARTER, The Spellout

"But it's Slow Skate's combination of tongue-in-cheek London lounge and just enough cowboy swagger that should give you pause. Relying on a combination of organic, dinky pianos and drums, as well as sleek-but-not-sterile electronica, the band's sparse compositions are set atop lazy, brushed drums and swooning surf guitar. A definite must see, especially before their full length album comes out and they are inevitably discovered by the masses." RAECHEL SIMS



"Love Bites," for those that recall, is one great monster ballad by the one and only Def Leppard. It's been covered magnificently by Slow Skate and is available on a 7" single titled "St. Valentine." Limited to 300 marble-colored records, the packaging is oh so eco-friendly (recycled chipboard, vegetable based inks) and oh so good. Sadly it's only two songs (the aforementioned Def Leppard gem with the smooth "St. Valentine"). Three Imaginary Girls