Slippers’ “Wasted Tonight” Is Miniature Pop Perfection Shot on 16mm

Madeline Babuka Black has been quietly building one of the most charming catalogs in LA indie pop — time spent in Yucky Duster, Beverly, and Gobbinjr, plus a parallel life as an animator, plus a gift for the kind of miniature pop tune that gets stuck in your head for days. Slippers is the project where all of that coalesces, and Slippers 08 is the record that makes it undeniable.

“Wasted Tonight” is the third single and it sounds exactly like the pitch: ’60s doo-wop and sock-hop energy dropped into a ’90s high school teen drama, shot on 16mm by Madeline Babuka Black herself. The whole album carries a wistful yearning through it — that feeling of looking into the distance, unsure what the future holds, trying to pin it down in song form. Mo Troper produced, Fred Thomas mixed and mastered, and the artwork is by Mike Krol. That is a very good team.

Slippers 08 is out June 5 on K/Perennial Records. If the answer to “do you like pop music?” is yes, pre-order it below.

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Side A

1“Blueberry Peel Reprise”

2“Wants for Everyone”

3“Wasted Tonight”

4“Until You Can’t Give Up on Me”

5“Reading Lucy’s Diary”

6“’Til You Know”

Side B

1“Who Escapes the Storm”

2“Castaways”

3“Fool in Your Room”

4“Sunday Morning”

5“LWH”