Principles In The Way of Progress Sloe Noon

• 1 Principle I 03:13
• 2 Last One Home 02:35
• 3 Youthless, Useless 02:34
• 4 I Happen To The World and It Happens To Me 03:03
• 5 W 04:46
• Total Runtime 16:11

Info for Principles In The Way of Progress

Sloe Noon is guitarist and singer Anna Olivia Böke, who draws inspiration from both countries in which she has lived. With influences from British alternative rock and the Krautrock beats of the Ruhr region, Sloe Noon creates a unique blend of guitar-driven pop, alt-rock, and shoegaze. Supported by live drums, guitar, and bass, her performance invites you into the dreamy bedroom where the songs were written, only to tear down its walls together.

Her name comes from a visit to a chip shop in her student hometown of Brighton, where she played with fridge poetry magnets on the walls. Later, combined with a sloe gin nightcap at her grandmother's house, everything fell into place. In 2022, the “Liminality” EP was released in collaboration with Mielke on the British tastemaker label Dalliance (Francis of Delirium, HighSchool), while in 2023 she completed her first tours and festival appearances in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and France – in 24 and 25 most recently with queues forming before her performances at Left of The Dial Rotterdam, Mutations Festival Brighton, and Reeperbahn Festival. After a trilogy of singles in 2024, created in collaboration with producer Theo Verney (English Teacher, Lime Garden, TRAAMS), Sloe Noon released her new EP “All Feelings, No Technique” in 2025. The latest EP, “Principles In The Way of Progress,” was created last summer at Hackney Road Studios in London in collaboration with producer Michelle Hindriks. The two immediately hit it off and recorded five songs together, resulting in this brilliant EP—a collection of songs marked by emotional overwhelm, remorse, love, intoxication, and growing older. By putting her pain on paper, she delivers honest truths, focuses on female experiences, and at the same time tries to regain control over what she can influence in order to find a way forward.

Sloe Noon

Produced, Engineered & Mixed by Michelle Hindriks
Recorded at Hackney Road Studios, Summer 2025
Mastered by Katie Tavini

Sloe Noon
better known as Anna Olivia Böke, owes her name to a moment of idle play with fridge magnets on a chip shop wall. Later combined with a sloe gin nightcap offered at her nan’s, things were all set. As an accomplished guitarist and vocalist she heavily draws inspiration from both countries she has lived in. With influences of British Alternative Rock and the Ruhr area’s Krautrock beats, Sloe Noon creates a unique blend of guitar-driven pop, grunge and shoegaze.

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