Bottom/ Shleep (Thirsty Ear, 1997) is the eighth album released by English musician Robert Wyatt, former member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine. In 2008, the Domino Records label, a large independent label housing such big indie stars as Arctic Monkeys, Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel and Elliott Smith, re-released Wyatt's Drury Lane, Rock Bottom, Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard, Nothing Can Stop Us, Old Rottenhat, Dondestan, Shleep, EPs and Cuckooland on CD and vinyl. Recently the verb "Wyatting", named obviously after Robert Wyatt, appeared in some blogs and music magazines to describe the practice of playing weird tracks on a pub jukebox to annoy the other pub goers. Wyatt contributed the haunting "Masters of the Field", as well as "The Highest Gander", "La Forêt Rouge" and "Hors Champ" to the soundtrack of the acclaimed 2001 film Winged Migration. Top/ Hoy-Hoy! (Warner Brothers, 1981) is a collection of live recordings by American band Little Feat, released two years after the band's break-up following the death of founder Lowell George. Cover illustration by Neon Parks.
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