Why stay the same, when you can change?

Over the course of five full-length albums and dozens of tours across North America, the United Kingdom and Europe, Saskatoon’s Slow Down Molasses has seamlessly evolved from blissed-out dream pop and hazy Americana into a noise drenched rock act falling somewhere between the bruising post-punk of Mission Of Burma and the cerebral spectrum of hardcore, landing somewhere between the rosters of Matador and Dischord Records.

2021 saw the band riding high on the momentum of their latest album Minor Deaths, which took them on four European tours, as well as dates across Canada, including stops at Reeperbahn Festival (Hamburg, Germany), The Great Escape (Brighton, England), Future Echoes (Norrkoping, Sweden), Sled Island (Calgary, Canada), M for Montreal (Montreal, Canada), and C/O Pop (Cologne, Germany). This run of shows were met with increasing acclaim, with legendary BBC6 DJ Steve Lamacq stating their “live show is VERY, VERY strong” after playing the band on his radio show.

Since returning from tour, the band has been busy writing new material, turning that live energy into their most concise, aggressive songs to date. Watch for releases starting in early 2025, along with performances coinciding with festivals across Canada, the United Kingdom and Europe throughout 2025 and 2026.

Slow Down Molasses is: Tyson McShane: vocals, guitar ● Chris Morin: bass, vocals ● Levi Soulodre: guitar, vocals ● Andrew Taylor: drums

 

 

"Noise-rocking Saskatoon neo-shoegazers find corroded melodies in the wreckage of a rock anthem." - MOJO

 

"Filled with screeching distortion and raw, warehouse-dwelling energy reminiscent of Manchester in the ’80s, “Street Haunting” is a unique return trip from Slow Down Molasses." - Impose Magazine

 

“Fusing shoegaze tapestries to a post-punk framework, the band’s songwriting has an Anglophile streak – think New Order, Ride or Swervedriver – but there’s also something deeply North American” – Clash Music

 

"It is beautifully scattered and abrasive with guitars that scream like crashing ambulances in a subway tunnel. The driving bass and proto punk-esque falling vocal aesthetic like something from 1978 is so evocative." - American Pancake

 

“If you listen attentively, it’s not hard to hear the early REM and Pixies influence on display here, along with the Gang of Four rhythms, and the resounding Sonic Youth-like bass lines and riffs.” - V13

 

“Slow Down Molasses have evolved from a sprawling art-pop collective into a more muscular, shoegaze-y, post-punk outfit.” - Exclaim Magazine

 

“Blackclad, and not afraid of a burning avalanche of guitar noise, the band feel pretty exciting in this bright, cosy community centre – we spot an organiser glancing at a decibel count early on – and they bounce between grubby but honed Mission Of Burma rock and the less aggressive end of hardcore, falling somewhere between the rosters of Matador and Dischord.” – Nightshift Mag (Oxford, UK)

 

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS

Festival highlights:

Future Echoes (Sweden, 2023), The Great Escape Festival (UK, 2022), C/O POP (Germany, 2022) Reeperbahn Festival (Germany, 2021), Tallinn Music Week (Estonia, 2021), Iceland Airwaves (2016), End of the Road Festival (UK / 2011, 2016), Incubate Festival (NL / 2012, 2016), Reeperbahn Festival (2012), SXSW (2014, 2015), CMJ (2013, 2015), NXNE (2012, 2014), Pop Montreal (2014, 2016), Sled Island (2011, 2014, 2015, 2019), Halifax Pop Explosion (2017), BIME (Spain, 2014), Nouvelle Prague (CZ, 2014), The Great Escape (2012).

Have shared the stage with:

Explosions in the Sky, Deerhoof, Built to Spill, Preoccupations, Savages, The New Pornographers, The Besnard Lakes, Swervedriver, Fly Pan Am, The Messthetics, La Luz, Wildbirds & Peacedrums.

Tours highlights

UK - 2022, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2011

Europe (Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium) - 2022, 2021, 2016, 2014, 2012

Canada - too many times to count. ;)