
Preview | Sluice
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The indie rock outfit Sluice performs songs from its latest record as well as new unreleased tracks.
What happens when you open the floodgates to your emotions and channel them into music? Sluice’s Justin Morris and Avery Sullivan perform songs from their latest record, “Radial Gate,” named one of 2023’s best albums by The Guardian, as well as new unreleased tracks. They also discuss how their atmospheric music is inspired by the “beauty of living” and our deeply complex relationship with nature.
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Preview | Sluice
Preview: 2/13/2025 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
What happens when you open the floodgates to your emotions and channel them into music? Sluice’s Justin Morris and Avery Sullivan perform songs from their latest record, “Radial Gate,” named one of 2023’s best albums by The Guardian, as well as new unreleased tracks. They also discuss how their atmospheric music is inspired by the “beauty of living” and our deeply complex relationship with nature.
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Can you kind of speak to the name Sluice?
- I like the name.
[chuckles] There are a lot of pieces of it, but it being like a pressure release also kind of felt like how I felt about my creative output.
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Sluice plays “Fourth of July,” a song that often opens the band’s live performances. (5m 33s)
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Sluice performs “Mill,” a song influenced by the hidden histories found within nature. (3m 58s)
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Sluice plays “New Leicester,” a song about their experience in the North Carolina mountain town. (7m 1s)
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Sluice performs “Zillow,” an unreleased song about the housing crisis in North Carolina. (3m 39s)
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