Slippers - Slippers 08 (2026) Hi-Res

It was impossible not to fall for Slippers’ debut LP So You Like Slippers (yes, absolutely), and its follow-up is every bit as irresistible. Maybe even more so. Slippers 08 (does the album name refer to the band being the 8th band on Discogs by that name?) packs 22 minutes of jangly guitar-pop bliss into a package so effortlessly charming it feels like a mood-enhancing device.

Had a rough day? Minor existential crisis? Doomscrolled a little too hard? Slippers have a remedy for that. One song at a time, they sand down the rough edges, dust off the cobwebs, and gently remind you that life can still be pretty great. There is a kindness to these songs, a purity of purpose, and an infectious energy that makes spending time with this record feel genuinely restorative.

The funny thing is that Madeline Babuka Black (also of Yucky Duster and Le Pain) isn’t exactly reinventing indie pop here. Every chord, jangle, and beat has some distant ancestor in the genre’s long and glorious history. But that’s not really the point. What matters is that Black has an uncanny gift for turning familiar ingredients into something that feels fresh, personal, and completely impossible to resist.

The result is another excellent Slippers record and further proof that sometimes the sweetest sounds hit the hardest.