Sounds | Skloss - Veto Powder
- Michael Vandenbosch
- 27 aug
- 3 minuten om te lezen
Op 'Veto Powder' laten Karen Skloss en Sandy Carson weer een vette portie space gaze op de mensheid los. Carson's fuzzy groovende gitaarriffs, Karen's onorthodoxe meeslepende drumspel, de vage maar bezwerende zang en een familiepakje effectpedalen vormen samen meer dan de som der delen. Het kan er soms luid aan toe gaan tussen koppels, maar Skloss laat het ook nog eens geweldig lekker klinken. Nice.
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Currently in the midst of a summer of UK/EU touring, Austin TX via Glasgow āspacegazeāā duo SKLOSS are today releasing a new single and video titled āVeto Powderā. The new cut is the first track the husband-and-wife duo of Karen Skloss and Sandy Carson wrote together in the projectās infancy and is being released now as an outtake from their debut album āThe Pattern Speaksā, released in March on Fuzz Club and now on its second pressing already. SKLOSS play their first ever London headline at Strongroom tomorrow (August 27th), with more UK/ IE shows coming up including festival appearances at Supersonic and Manchester Psych Fest, as well as an appearance at Levitation in Austin TX once they land back in the US. The last stretch of the tour follows a run of recent shows including stops in the UK, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark, the Fuzz Club Festival in Eindhoven NL and its London warm-up party, and two recent semi-homecoming shows (for Carson) in Glasgow: supporting Os Mutantes in July and appearing at Mogwaiās Big Sound Festival earlier this month. On āVeto Powderā, out today with an accompanying video by Thomas Hooper, SKLOSS say: āVeto Powder is a bonus track from the Pattern Speaks album and is one of the first songs we wrote as a band. Itās also an anti-war song. May we someday have the vision and courage to celebrate the infinite beauty in each other.ā
ABOUT SKLOSS / āTHE PATTERN SPEAKSā āThe Pattern Speaksā is the debut album from Austin via Glasgow space-gaze duo SKLOSS, blending heavy psychedelia, post-metal drones, meditative drums, and raw distorted riffs performed with honesty and deliberation. Across these eight equally pulverising and ethereal tracks, the result is a powerful, atmospheric and reverberating wall of sound that indulges SKLOSSā heaviest and gentlest sonic impulses all at once. SKLOSS first formed in Austin, TX as a husband-and-wife duo between drummer Karen Skloss (Moving Panoramas) and guitarist Sandy Carson (Iglomat) during the COVID lockdown. Surrounded by drums and amps and the need to play loud, the sound of SKLOSS became a response to the crazy world just outside their window. Jams became songs, while the noise level, experimentation and distortion went up to a volume much louder than youād expect from a duo. āLiving next to the woods has something to do with it. We started to use music as an outlet, like most everyone during that time, we were so cooped up,ā says Skloss. A self-released debut EP 'Voices Travel Through This' was released in 2022 and after sharing the stage with acts like Divide & Dissolve, Messa, The Well, Glorium, and Oryx, SKLOSS performed a set at the 2022 Levitation Festival. Then, during the rollercoaster Austin winter of 2023 and spring of 2024, the pair holed up at Point West Studios with engineer and co-producer Charles Godfrey (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Swans) and recorded their debut LP. The formidable āThe Pattern Speaksā is now set to arrive March 7th 2025 via London-based record label Fuzz Club. Outside of the new creative frontiers explored with the band, Skloss is also a filmmaker who has been on Barack Obamaās pick list and edited seminal films about artists Syd Barrett and Townes Van Zandt, and Carson is a former professional BMX pro rider turned photographer and cinematographer.
