Something is coming your way psych lovers, fuzz lovers, drone lovers and general noise lovers….and its name is Skloss!
This band seems to have crawled out of the ether (or Texas and Scotland…), already fully formed and ready to blow a hole in the universe to give us an album that is going to be talked about for some time. There’s only two of them – Karen Skloss on drums and vocals and Sandy Carson on guitars- but they make a sound like some colossal galactic implosion!
‘The Pattern Speaks’, out very soon on Fuzz Club Records, is a sustained fuzz blast of corrosive guitars, subterranean riffs and deep heavy drones; the sound of space folding in on itself, powerful and huge. At times it just DROPS with a bone crushing density, the combined weight of guitars, thumping earthy drums and warped effects; slightly distorted and bent out of shape but beautifully wholesome somehow. There are some quieter more reflective passages within the storm and Karen’s voice, slightly disembodied and spectral weaves through like vapour trails.
The whole album sounds impossibly grand in scale, vast towering expanses of sound, organic and evolving with a heat and life all of its own. It’s a beautiful holy noise, channelled, powerful and full of lift and drive so that despite the sheer density it has a mind expanding tripped out feel as well.
A guaranteed psych classic, this one will feature heavily in album of the year polls. I can confidently predict that when Skloss hit Europe later in the year, including a set at Fuzz Club 2025 in Eindhoven, they are going to hit like an asteroid – I can’t wait to get caught in the blast!
Gary Powell, February 2025
