Paper Bag Records has released two Slim Twig EPs and two full-length albums. His most recent LP,
A Hound at the Hem, was released by his own label, Calico Corp., in conjunction with Pleasence Records. In September 2014, New York–based
DFA Records announced that it is re-releasing
A Hound at the Hem. In addition to Slim Twig-branded music, the artist played guitar and sang in the band, Tropics, with Simone TB on drums. In a review of his early Slim Twig EPs, Pitchfork Media stated that Tropics' music is “a feral take on
the Birthday Party's blitzkrieg blues.” Tropics is now defunct, having added members and transformed into Darlene Shrugg. Slim Twig has also formerly pursued a solo project called Archaic Women and played as part of a “psychedelic cover band” called Plastic Factory. In 2009, Tropics released a cassette tape entitled
SETTE. The earliest Slim Twig recordings were self-released in 2005 on a CD entitled
Livestock Burn, and an EP,
Dissonant Folk.
Derelict Dialect was the first Slim Twig EP release from Paper Bag Records, in April, 2008. Prior to that, Slim Twig self-released an EP called
Whiite Fantaseee. The songs from that recording (save one) were subsequently re-mastered and issued as
Vernacular Violence by Paper Bag Records, in August, 2008. Paper Bag later released its two Slim Twig EPs as a limited edition, vinyl LP album. In 2009, Paper Bag Records released
Contempt!, Slim Twig's first, full-length LP. He states that he created the record largely from found sound and samples set against his own vocals. A
Now magazine review of the album called it “startlingly unique.” Coinciding with the release of
Contempt!, Slim created a free, downloadable “mixtape” EP entitled
Spit It Twig! (Vol. 1).
Spit it Twig! Vol 2 was issued in the fall of 2009. It was named one of the top downloads of the year by Toronto's alternative weekly magazines. The third release in the mixtape series is
A Sheik in Scores, issued on cassette and as a download.
Recent work In 2011, Slim Twig professed to a change of direction, stating in an interview with
Now magazine that he is "reinventing himself as a 60s pop craftsman." His first foray in this direction was a split recording with U.S. Girls, whose side he co-produced, on FatCat subsidiary label, Palmist Records. The release was well received. Slim Twig also produced the two most recent U.S. Girls LPs,
U.S. Girls on Kraak and
Gem. Slim Twig and U.S. Girls jointly created their own label, Calico Corp., and each artist issued a 7" single as the label's first productions. In addition to co-releasing
A Hound at the Hem, Calico Corp. released an EP,
Flushing Meats, by
Eric Copeland, and most recently,
Zacht Automaat, a double LP by the eponymously named Toronto duo. In August 2012, Paper Bag released their second Slim Twig LP, ''Sof' Sike
, which garnered positive reviews. Calico Corp. and Pleasence Records then issued A Hound at the Hem
, in November, although it was apparently completed prior to Sof' Sike''. While cited as "a pop record that completely forgets it's a pop record.",
A Hound at the Hem has elsewhere been effusively praised as "a new masterpiece...one of the best post-glam concept albums not made in the slippery 70s”, and cited as critic Alan Ranta's choice for Canada's prestigious Polaris prize. The same writer, in reviewing the album subsequent to DFA's re-release, stated that "Canada dropped the ball, failing to recognize the genius in its own backyard." On April 20, 2015, Slim Twig released a cover version of the
Serge Gainsbourg track "
Cannabis", in celebration of
4/20. The cover was released by DFA Records as a limited edition 7" vinyl. A music video for the cover was released exactly one year later. In addition to re-releasing
A Hound at the Hem, DFA released Slim Twig's follow-up album, ''Thank You for Stickin' with Twig'', on August 7, 2015. ==Critical reception==