Slow Draw’s new noise/ambient/drone album »Burnt Counters« out now; watch new music video for »Entrances & Exits«!

Hurst, Texas based experimental/atmospheric/drone solo project Slow Draw has just released new album »Burnt Counters« on April 12th, 2026.

Watch a music video for the second single »Entrances & Exits« below!

Tracklist:
01. Entrances & Exits
02. Crush
03. Totems
04. As I Stare
05. Roadblock
06. Escape
07. Walk In The Woods With Dad
08. Burnt Counters

Courtesy of Good Boy PR:

Mark Kitchens’ (one third of Stone Machine Electric) long-running solo project Slow Draw deals in patient and often unsettling drone, ambient, and psychedelia. Following 2025’s album The People’s Department of Governmental Checks & Balances and its penchant for heavy, distorted nightmare fuel, Kitchen returns with new album »Burnt Counters«. Dark and poignant in new ways, »Burnt Counters« carves out a very personal corner of Slow Draw’s discography.

The lead single, »Roadblock«, comes with a fittingly eerie music video, followed by the abstract cinema of »Entrances & Exits«.

In the band’s own words:

“This recording of this album started in the summer of 2024, after I had the experience of a pulmonary embolism followed by a pneumothorax. Some of these songs are about that and reinforced my thoughts on certain topics. Most of this album was recorded in 2024, but it lagged into 2025 and wrapped up in January of 2026.

I bounced back and forth on whether to give it a full band sound, or to make it sound how it might if I performed it live by myself. As you’ll hear, I went with the full band sound. It is a studio album, so if and when I play any of these live, it will be a different experience.

»Burnt Counters« is a more personal album than others. My father passed away in November 2025, commemorated in Walk in the Woods with Dad. My wife, Lynda, provided lyrics for As I Stare. Roadblock is specifically about my health experiences in 2024. If I had ignored my body, I may not be here now.”

Slow Draw – »Burnt Counters« (CD, Digital) out April 12th, 2026. Order here: slowdraw.bandcamp.com/album/burnt-counters

Slow Draw is: Mark Kitchens

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Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well