SLOW DAZZLE

As two-thirds of the songwriting power behind the acclaimed Mendoza Line,
Slow Dazzle’s Shannon McArdle and Timothy Bracy have spent the past
several years translating their classic folk/rock influences into twanging,
raucous, entropic refrains. Equally rooted in classic songs, Slow Dazzle
represents a sort of urbanization of their previous band’s pastoral tendencies,
drawing inspiration from great folk icons like Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, John
Cale and Nico’s post-Velvets material, as well as another romantically involved
duo, Richard and Linda Thompson. While taking cues from the canon, Slow
Dazzle’s debut is an unmistakably modern record.

The View From the Floor’s layers of electronic sounds and its new approach
to production separate Slow Dazzle from Bracy and McArdle’s work in the
Mendoza Line. Fashioned from buzzing and ticking devices, acoustic and
electric instruments, and real and imagined percussion, the album represents
chances taken and experiments realized, giving this debut a stunningly fresh
and inspired sound.

The View from the Floor was recorded in a loft in New

York City, perched above a subway stop and a police station with the sound
of passing trains and traffic, the low hum of city lights at night and the sirens
and street level chatter as both ambient noise and an inspiration to the
sounds within. Engineer, principal contributing instrumentalist and third Slow
Dazzle member Peter Langland-Hassan has conjured an environment
reminiscent of Big Star’s perfectly skewed

Third/Sister Lovers on these

recordings. He’s created an ideal atmosphere for Bracy and McArdle’s delicate
songs of martyred housewives, misplaced hats, political assassination gone
wrong, hung juries, dance marathons, drunken chiropractors, and other
mysterious occurrences. With ambitious plans in place for a follow-up, this
album marks the start of a new and exciting chapter for Bracy and McArdle.

The View from

the Floor

ARTIST: Slow Dazzle

TITLE: The View from the Floor

LABEL: Misra

CATALOG: MSR34

UPC: 656605503226

RELEASE: June 7 2005

1405 Broadmoor Drive
Austin TX 78723
www.misrarecords.com

>> With the Mendoza Line on hiatus, Slow Dazzle is
Timothey Bracy & Shannon McArdle’s full time project

>> The Mendoza Line released multiple albums which landed
on the CMJ top 30, expect similiar support in college radio for
Slow Dazzle’s debut

>> The Mendoza Line were also a huge hit in the press,
including features in

Magnet (twice), No Depression, Paste,

Uncut, The Washington Post and glowing reviews from Greil
Marcus (countless times),

Spin (also countless times),

Blender, Mojo, Harp, CMJ and many many more

>> Summer tours in the works to support

The View From the

Floor

Mendoza Line press highlights:

“Their most confident sounding release. Few bands can make desperation sound so all-embracing and

enticing.” —

Mojo ****

“The constant shifts in perspective aren't distracting, they're divine.” —

Blender ****

“Indie pop, baroque country-folk and new wave are whipped into an amiable froth that manages to

simultaneously evoke X, Richard and Linda Thompson, early Wilco and Elvis Costello… entirely novel and

comfortingly familiar at the same time.” —

No Depression