Album Review: Film Buff by Sløtface

Norwegian pop-punkers’ third album, now a solo vehicle for frontwoman Haley Shea is unapologetically loud and raucous Sometimes, it’s all in the timing. Sløtface‘s excellent second album, Sorry For The Late Reply, was all set to consolidate and add to their growing reputation, when, just six weeks or so after it was released, the world shut down due to a global pandemic. All gigs were cancelled, and the Norwegian pop-punkers didn’t get the chance to tour an album that would surely have taken them up to the next level.

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There's something wholly satisfying to the opening of Sløtface's third full-length - and second with founding member Haley Shea as the focus. The rollicking 'I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit', as fully front-facing as its title suggests, immediately evokes the early excitement that surrounded the Norwegian band as they emerged in the middle of the 2010s. To say this energy sustains itself through the record's eleven tracks would be somewhat of an exaggeration - the overarching concept of taking tropes from film and TV leads 'Charlie Calls' and 'Tired Old Dog' falling somewhat flat, as if there's a direct reference missing somehow.

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A few years can change everything, especially in the life of a band. In the case of Sløtface – formerly known (and still pronounced) Slutface – the pandemic era made sufficiently celebrating 2020’s ‘Sorry For The Late Reply’ impossible. By the time live music was once more opened to us all, founding members Tor-Arne Vikingstad and Lasse Lokøy had amicably left the band to try new things, leaving frontperson Haley Shea to consider the project’s future.

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