Purge & Slouch is an album by the American band Giant Sand, released in 1993 through the German label Brake Out Records...Frontman Howe Gelb referred to the music as "smash jazz"

USA Today called the album "charmingly tattered", noting that "Gelb mixes a half-dozen genres with his off-kilter sensibilities to produce addictive countrified folk-rock."

LA Weekly called the album "ragged-edged, tumultuous, inward and poetic". The New York Daily News stated that "Gelb has given his rundown, dusty music an unrushed allure and made a sound as expansive as a desert sky." - Wikipedia

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Giant Sand, Returns To Valley of Rain, 2018 on Fire Records

https://goatless.org/2026/05/25/giant-sand-returns-to-valley-of-rain-2018-on-fire-records

Deradoorian shares new Giant Sand cover from upcoming tribute LP 'Sandworms'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theneedledrop.com/news/deradoorian-shares-new-giant-sand-cover-from-upcoming-tribute-album-sandworms/

"Giant Sand has meandered around the fringes of indie-rock popularity for nearly 20 years, releasing about that many wildly diverse full-length recordings...—Giant Sand has burrowed into obscurity a bit, releasing only a tiny handful of home recordings since its failed attempt at the big-time. The Arizona band's new Official Bootleg Series Volume One is as small-time as recordings get: With a pressing of 2,000 and distribution only by mail, odds are good that fans of the band's low-key, ramshackle side won't even know it exists. The recording itself displays the slow-moving, quiet side of Giant Sand—no guitar freakouts to speak of here—as well as, of course, the distinctively cracking voice of idiosynchratic frontman Howe Gelb. By definition it's not for everyone, but fans of shambling releases like Glum will enjoy the gentility and modesty of these recordings."

Stephen Thompson for The AV Club

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10-YEAR-THROWBACK: Heute vor 10 Jahren - der Indie Rock-, Folk- und Americana-Singer/Songwriter Howe Gelb aus Arizona gastiert mit Unterstützung von Gabriel Sullivan im Frankfurter Club Zoom. So berichteten wir damals: https://bit.ly/45KsuEu #howegelb #americana #indierock

https://www.rockstage-riot-rheinmain.de/howe-gelb.html

Live review: Giant Sand, Broadcast, Glasgow, 23rd April 2024 "Dressed in boiler suits for some reason (men at work?) the trio then proceeded to gyre and gimble their way through some classics" #HoweGelb

https://americana-uk.com/live-review-giant-sand-broadcast-glasgow-23rd-april-2024