Founded in the late 2010s, Philadelphia's psych-tinged, garage fuzz quartet the Mary Veils is the brainchild of vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Brian von Uff. In 2017, he self-released Slacker Paint, a quirky, dynamic, and melodic set recorded by Jesse Gimbel at his Upper Darby studio, The Basement. Von Uff wrote and performed each of the album's 13 tracks in their entirety. However, lacking proper promotion and distribution, it failed to make even a minor splash until its eventual reissue by Stockholm's PNKSLM Recordings in December 2020. Nevertheless, its ori...