Slip It In was recorded on a brief break on the continuous tour for
My War, which saw Black Flag at their most ambitious. This year they would release three full-length albums and toured nearly constantly, with Rollins noting 178 performances for the year, and about that many for 1985. With Dukowski gone, Ginn ceded much of the spotlight to Rollins, who had expressed some discomfort over being the group's
de facto spokesman, while Ginn was the recognized leader (Ginn wrote the majority of the group's songs and lyrics). In many ways,
Slip It In is a fusion of the styles utilized on their previous releases (with vocals),
Damaged and
My War. The songs are inspired by
heavy metal, yet the material also shows traces of "
sludgy 'pre-grunge' metal,
hardcore punk, and
thrash to
blues rock and
jazz." The track "My Ghetto" even contains traces of a musical style that would later become known as
powerviolence. At the middle point of the album, there is an instrumental track called "Obliteration" which highlights Ginn's
chord progressions where Brandon Sideleau of Punknews.org claims that it "mashes
sludge and
jazz into an ominous hybrid." ==Cover art==