Social Animals

As one critic noted, “Sean Rowe can just crush granite with that voice. It's so powerful.” He is an acclaimed and well-respected forager and songwriter whose music has been used extensively in television and film. Rowe is currently working on wrapping production for his soon-to-be-announced 6th album.

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Judson & Moore Distillery 

Sean Rowe, Social Animals (solo)

To Leave Something Behind

Sean Rowe

Gigs

Chicago

Judson & Moore Distillery

Appearing IN PERSON, THE SLAPS w/very special guests HEMLOCK & SOCIAL ANIMALS (solo)!!!

**ABOUT THE SLAPS ::**

As proven on their strange and beautiful new album Mudglimmer, the looming specter of artistic oblivion pushed The Slaps to lean into their idiosyncrasies: snaking rhythms, complicatedly interlocking guitar riffs, grubby yet alluring poetry, and homespun post-modern Americana sing-alongs all surge with a free-wheeling improvisatory verve informed by free jazz. It’s a stunning DIY comeback story, a doubling-down on avant-garde impulses that pays immediate dividends.

Spontaneous composition and earnest, threadbare folk collide on Mudglimmer. It’s a marvel of influential synthesis, evoking Slint’s comfortability with ominous tension (“Mudglimmer”), Tortoise’s slinky push-pull grooves (“Filthy Sex Manuevers”), Waxahatchee’s slice-of-life Americana gems (“Flip”), elliptical funk-punk a la The Minutemen (“Forward”), minimal grunge-pop in the vein of Sebadoh (“King”) and so much more.

Mudglimmer, in short, rips. Faced with existential threats, The Slaps reconfigured and reenergized — finding purpose, not in reaching for a brass ring, but in becoming fully, unashamedly, their own wonderfully confounding thing.

**ABOUT HEMLOCK ::**

hemlock is the swamp-raised "phone-fi” alt-folk project of multi-disciplinary creative force Carolina Chauffe and various rotating collaborators, currently anchored between Chicago, Austin, and Louisiana, but more often on the road.

Their most recent album ‘444’ – self-released in October 2024 – is a "best of, so far" of an ongoing song-a-day-for-a-month project, with its 12 carefully chosen tracks recaptured, rearranged, and reimagined in eager collaboration with an all-star Chicago cast.

This is means-to-an-end modern-day folk art for the open-hearted. Eager, intentionally imperfect, prolific.

Doggedly DIY, Chauffe is an avid documenter, an amateur archivist, and a believer in magic, with a discography spanning hundreds of songs in half a decade, including their independently released debut full-band LP 'talk soon' (2022), and 6 months' worth of aforementioned phone-recorded song-a-day collections (2019-present), among other works.

In addition to hemlock, Carolina has toured in Merce Lemon (2023), Babehoven (2022), Fran (2023), and is a long-time member of TX band Little Mazarn.

They are a gatherer, a neighbor, and a hopeful for a free Palestine, for a free tomorrow for all. They will be a road dog for as long as they can, and make music for as long as they live.

LISTEN to The Slaps :: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4nNxZ9weXMeokvs9ohcmZl?si=_4xiINSWTCe1QTPsutBEIg

LISTEN to Hemlock :: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2urQCjxehNpSQWZW83h1L2?si=G7a9T2L6RD2hli9RTQXbHg

LISTEN to Social Animals :: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6B7x4EysPMAo1fj4FSFrEJ?si=5A_uDLbzRuyqEqgOnwbNRw

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