Wide Open:
Slaughterhouse 5's first full-length album was released in 1993 on IRS/EMI.
Wide Open contains 15 frantic cuts that perfectly demonstrate Sh5's loyalty
to the great English songwriting traditions - a lineage that started with the
Beatles and the Kinks, moved through the do-it-yourself punk era,
picked up with Squeeze and the Buzzcocks in the 70's and early 80's
and fetched up with the likes of The Wonderstuff, The Senseless Things
and now, Slaughterhouse 5.
Previously regarded as a "lost classic", the album has now been
re-mastered and is being re-released by Big Arena Records.
Wide Open received wide critical acclaim on its initial release:
"24 carat gold, heartbroken sing-along pop ditties. With LOUD guitars" - Mojo Flucke, The Secret Guide To Music.
"It appears IRS has a new hit on their hands with this one. Slaughterhouse 5 gives
alternative music the shot in the arm it so desperately needs" - Kenneth Morton, Highwire Daze.
"It's pretty hard to ignore talent like this" - The Paisano, San Antonio Tx.
"Fast tempo pop brimming with hooks right out the wazoo. Yessir, another UK band in the
tradition of the Buzzcocks and the Wedding Present, churning out confessionals that whizz
by almost too fast to grasp, but don't worry; you'll be bopping around too much to care.
Their approach is a little less manic than the above mentioned lineage, a little breezier in fact,
which is jus' fine to these ears. Summer love is in the air and this is a fine mating call to blare
out of your window" - Bob Lukomski, Buzzz.