Name: Gunshots at Crestridge
Brand: People Skills

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

BLACKEST055

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2016-12-02

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

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Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5055869544498

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

People Skills

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Blackest Ever Black

Graciously welcoming the second full-length lp from Philadelphia’s Jesse Dewlow, recording under the moniker People Skills. The follow-up to 2014’s Siltbreeze set Tricephalic Head. Ten sunken songs, derisively adorned with rhythm and rudimentary dub effects. Bedroom elegies for the lost and irretrievable, last-ditch spells for transformation and renewal. Thurston Moore and Byron Coley likened the previous record to “South Island NZ pop played inside of an armored car”, and that description holds here: underneath the hoods of these wracked and weather-beaten recordings are melodies of disarming beauty and optimism, bordering on the (wilfully) mawkish, bubblegum ground underfoot. Each piece as time-stopping and evocative as an old photograph of someone who used to mean something. Whether speaking through stately keyboard pastorals (Mint Julep), rat-arsed rock ‘n roll slur (89¢ Public Render) or sulphurous aggro-electronics (the two-part title track),Gunshots At Crestridge exposes, then seeks to redeem, all our tiny acts of self-sabotage, all our sins against time. When to stay, when to go...you never got it right, not once.

Gunshots at Crestridge

Music GB