Slow Reels has been played on NTS in shows including Night Shift w/ Diamondstein, featured first on 18 March 2020. Songs played include Farewell.

Slow Reels is a new undertaking from minimalist artists Ian Hawgood (the Home Normal label) and James Murray (Slowcraft Records). Their debut album Farewell Islands is borne from a mutual love of vintage synthesisers and reel-to-reel tape machines, and will remind fans of avant-garde composers such as William Basinski.