Dinky sounding guitars over beats provided by a thin drum machine. With a vocal range that both Jim and Mariah Carey can’t even top The Slow Clock chooses to deliver its lyrics in a deadpan and often inaudible fashion. It’s quite charming to hear him struggling on the bass guitar like a wannabe funkateer. He him writes songs a mile a minute because of a deep realisation that time is definitely nót on our side, but as long as there is the power of numbers we’ll be in the clear. In other words: Youjustgottaloveit! The Slow Clock is a solo project of Chinup frontman Harmen Kuiper, the frontman of the now defunct indiepop band Chinup and currently one half of the sludgepunk duo GDVRDGDVR. Being half-Italian he wrote all his lyrics in half-Italian before translating them into half-baked English, for the international market. The Slow Clock is based on the 18th century novel L’orologio Lento by the forgotten writer Eros Ramazzotti (no relation). It discusses time travelling long before H.G. Wells and Michael J Fox stepped into their DeLoreans. File under: U.N.P.O.C., Sneaks, Liars, Carla dal Forno, DRINKS, Marine Girls, XTC, John Frusciante, Barry Manilow and the Kassettentäter compilations.