“ROOFTOPS”

Ten years ago, in a freezing dirt-floor basement in Burlington Vermont, Little Slugger was formed by a group of childhood friends. It grew out of a shared love for DIY pop music and a blatant disregard for genres. Over the next five years, Little Slugger put out three records and made some new friends along the way, each one adding their own beautiful ideas to the music.

Now here in 2025, Little Slugger is releasing their newest record “Rooftops”. The core elements remain the same: powerful guitars, driving drums, lush vocal layers. But new bandmates add new complexities, with steel pans, electronic samples, trumpets and clarinets filling out this indie orchestra. Little Slugger began rehearsing these songs during covid lockdown in Houston Texas. Initial tracking of drums and bass began in August 2020 at The Box in Burlington, and the rest was DIY’d in bedrooms around Brooklyn. A pedal steel solo was overnight shipped from Indiana. Piece by piece, “Rooftops” was assembled.

A lot has happened along the way since Little Slugger began recording these tracks - people move, band members get married (sometimes to each other), life rolls along. Songs become time capsules and everyone you know has placed something special inside of it. “Rooftops” memorializes the apartment where the members of Little Slugger used to live, sitting on the roof in a pair of rickety chairs looking out at the sun setting over Manhattan and imagining what the future would hold. 

Produced by Ben Chugg

Drums, Lead Vocals, Bass, and some guitar engineered and tracked by Urian Hackney at The Box in Burlington, VT

Mastered by Nick Dooley

Sam Bevet, lead vocals, guitar

Ben Chugg, backing vocals, guitar, trumpet

Ryan Hopper, Bass

Tom Shahan, drums

Molly Patterson, keys, synth, steel pan

Leon Todd Johnson plays the Pedal Steel solo on Widow Swan