Slow Pulp

Slow Pulp play The Echo Lounge & Music Hall on Tuesday, November 3, with Snuggle opening. It's a mid-week show in Dallas, and the set will be built around their third album, Melodie, which came out September 18 on ANTI-.

If you're coming to them now, it helps to know where they started. Slow Pulp formed in Madison, Wisconsin, in the mid-2010s when singer and guitarist Emily Massey met childhood friends Henry Stoehr on guitar, Alex Leeds on bass, and Teddy Mathews on drums. They grew up on '90s alt-rock and the 2000s indie wave, and they've described their approach as pan-American rock. In 2018, the band moved from Madison to Chicago.

Their debut album, Moveys, came out in 2020. Massey recorded the vocals while caring for her parents, the latter a veteran musician who had been injured in a car crash. Their second record, Yard, arrived in 2022; Massey wrote many of its lyrics in a northern Wisconsin cabin during a COVID scare, and the band toured it with the Pixies, Death Cab for Cutie, and Alvvays. Melodie is their third, and it's the one they're out supporting now.

So the set should pull from the new material and the older records they've built around. Snuggle opens the night, and the whole thing starts at 7 PM at The Echo Lounge & Music Hall, 1323 N Stemmons Fwy, Dallas, TX 75207.