''Slush'' is the 1997 debut album by

OP8 OP8 is the musical collaboration of the multi-instrumentalist Lisa Germano, Howe Gelb, Joey Burns and John Convertino. Joey Burns and John Convertino form the band Calexico together and have both been members of Gelb's Giant Sand. The only alb ...

, a band formed from

Lisa Germano Lisa Ruth Germano (born June 27, 1958) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Indiana. Her album '' Geek the Girl'' (1994) was chosen as a top album of the 1990s by ''Spin'' magazine. She began her career as a violinist ...

Howe Gelb Howe Gelb (born October 22, 1956, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer based in Tucson, Arizona. Projects Gelb's approach to music is collaborative and he has recorded with a number of s ...

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, and Joey Burns and

John Convertino Calexico is a Tucson, Arizona-based Americana, Tex-Mex, indie rock band. The band's two main members, Joey Burns and John Convertino, first played together in Los Angeles as part of the group Giant Sand. They have recorded a number of albums on Q ...

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and Giant Sand. The album was released on

Thirsty Ear Thirsty Ear Recordings is an American independent record label. It was founded in the late 1970s as a marketing company for the then-unnamed alternative music field, and expanded to issue its own records in 1990. Thirsty Ear came to prominence ...

and features covers of "

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" by

Nancy Sinatra Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940) is an American singer and actress. She is the elder daughter of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra ( Barbato), and is best known for her 1966 signature hit " These Boots Are Made for Walkin'. Nancy Sinatr ...

and

Lee Hazlewood Barton Lee Hazlewood (July 9, 1929 – August 4, 2007) was an American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer, most widely known for his work with guitarist Duane Eddy during the late 1950s and singer Nancy Sinatra in the 1960 ...

as well as "Round and Round" by

Neil Young Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Fur ...

. Its generally mainstream, jazz-inflected songwriting is at times counterbalanced by odd sonic details, including detuned melodic fragments and synthetic noises. Comedian and writer

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has ranked ''Slush'' among his thirteen favourite albums of all time.

Track listing

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) – 4:37 # "Lost In Space" (Joey Burns) – 4:07 # "If I Think Of Love" (Lisa Germano) – 3:15 # "Leather" (Howe Gelb) – 6:04 # "It's A Rainbow" (Germano) – 4:08 # "OP8" (Gelb/Convertino/Burns) – 4:45 # "Cracklin' Water" (Gelb) – 6:29 # "Never See It Coming" (Burns/Gelb) – 4:05 # "Tom, Dick & Harry" (Germano) – 4:20 # "The Devil Loves L.A." (Gelb) – 4:01 # "Round And Round" (

) – 6:21 The album was a critical success, and MTV invited the band to perform several of the songs from the album on their show MTV's Alternative Nation, in 1997. This gave Germano some much needed exposure, and "If I Think Of Love" became somewhat popular, and she released it on her next album, 1998's ''

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''.

References

Sa-Wa-Ro Records Page
;Notes 1997 debut albums Thirsty Ear Recordings albums {{1990s-album-stub