Followers of Laurie Vincent from Slaves have probably noticed the prevalence of a rather worried looking balloon floating around his social media recently. Well, turns out he isn't starting a new career as a balloon artist / children's entertainer – it's actually tied to his new project with producer Jolyon Thomas, titled
Larry Pink The Human. Obvious, right?
"When Slaves finished our last record, I felt quite restless," explains Laurie. "I felt like I was ready to carry on being creative, but also like it was time to have a little breather from the band – we'd just finished a quite intense run, and I've been in the band since I was 18 or 19. That's my whole adult life I've been focussing on just one project, and it's had more success than I could ever imagine, but I also feel like it's an appropriate time to take stock and try something new. I don't want to go back and do anything with the band until I feel like we're doing it for the right reasons again, not just out of habit. It's a completely open book, I'm just focussing on this at the moment is all.
"The contrast is that I grew up wanting to make people beat each other up, essentially, because I wanted to see the raw power of music," he says, when asked about the difference between Slaves and Larry Pink The Human. "But now I'm desperate to make music that people are going to cook their eggs to. I know that sounds simple, but it's that kind of music that permeates people's homes and their lives, the kind of thing you choose to listen to when you're cooking is such a deep connection.
