The first release as Slow Cooked since his debut EP ‘Plastic Values’, follows on from themes of identity crisis. Vest Poets / Gammon offers two tones to the same theme. Vest Poets is a ballad wrapped within a release of cathartic frustration, whilst Gammon leans further in with a tender, but unreliable narration of bitterness. Both written as a reaction against the sickly sincerity of online personas within self-promotion, the songs act as a self-critical discovery of hypocrisy as he realises he’s become the cringe that he loves to hate.

First written using only a cello and loop pedal, Slow Cooked performs his music with a band of bass (Jack Patchet) and drums (Barney Lister). Produced by Adele Phillips, most of the sounds were built by creating samples of glitched cello to create an energetic and experimental sound that continues to combine Louie’s punky aesthetic with his classical background.