The dystopian frontier is near, but never fear. In the new era of endlessness where we hide ourselves as humans among androids, there is hope. On Endless Bummer, the second album from Pink Skull, the producer duo of Julian Grefe and Justin Geller rip out the tracking chip and jump the grid on a quest for purity among putridity.
Endless Bummer was engineered by Quentin Stolzfus (Mazarin) and recorded live to 8 tracks on 1" tape at Alex Ounsworth's (of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) studio outside of Philadelphia. The 'in the moment' feel accomplished at the 200 year old barn doesn't typify traditional dance or ambient recordings but rather creates a hauntingly stoned environment that allows the album as much free form as it does structure.
Lysergic traces from Pink Skull's electro-fried debut Zeppelin 3 LP reappear on Endless Bummer in ghostly tape delays and trigger hits but this album favors the man-made over the machine. Grefe's vocals, both sung and sampled in harmony, humanize lead off track "Peter Cushing" and "Oh, Monorail", while the expanded "live" Pink Skull line up of drums, bass, and guitar animalize the skittish acid tracks "Chicken Inside Egg" and "Gonzo's Cointreu". Where Bummer mellows slightly, Skull's spirit animal Geller takes tracks like "Wheet" and "Fired, So Fired" into outer kosmische territories.
The result of this balance parallels the Bummer along the various lines of PIL's Metal Box, The Orb's Pomme Fritz EP, the tropicalia Dada-ism of Tom Ze, and Eno & Cluster. Living / breathing electronic music made beyond the computer screen for bigger screens, Bummer could easily soundtrack a remake of Videodrome as well as it could a Kubrickian classic.
Endless Bummer is available on vinyl and mp3 formats. Each LP comes with a digital download of the full album (+ three bonus tracks) and Beardo Tyrannicus, a collection of original and found works by Pink Skull, laid out by Will Work For Good across two 18” x 24” newsprint posters. Look for Pink Skull's frenetic live show on select dates supporting the release of Endless Bummer.
you guys should look into playing some incite hq parties. it's a really low key venue, and pretty much a free for all once you're inside. i think you guys could def. throw down there.
Thursday Nov 20th will be the last FLOW SESSION of the year. I would like to thank all of the artists and patrons that have supported our movement for positive change through critical thinking.
This year LIQUIDFLOW INC is teaming up with T-MARQUISE ENTERTAINMENT and 609HIPHOP. COM with the goal of raising cash and/or canned good donations for Sister Jean Webster's hot meal program. Her hard work and dedication to providing aid and comfort to our city's homeless is one of the longest running programs in the city. We are asking our community to come out and support this noble effort.
There will be a select number of performances from some of the FLOW SESSION ALUMNI and our special invited guest, Philly's own Singer/Song Writer MERON!!!!
Performance space is limited due to the nature of this event so we are NOT going to have an open mic list that evening. Again, I want to thank our community for it's continued support and I look forward to seeing you soon. WORDS MUSIC LIFE LOVE
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