Spirit Guide مرشد حقيقة by Skyjelly
Next chapter in Skyjelly's history!
https://www.skyjelly.com/discography/
https://open.spotify.com/album/7mbkUQ0efj97iWL7aculmC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ybrf3OkpGM
“This was a cool one because I was literally on a Bandcamp binge just clicking around and they had this four-track EP called Skyjelly & SUN. I believe there were CDs of it but nothing else. I was listening to it thinking that these guys definitely deserved an audience and yet, Googling them and whatever, you didn’t see a lot of coverage. The A-side (Blank Panthers) was recorded by Dave Auchenbach, who recorded Lightning Bolt and all those cool albums. It’s got that sound that only he can capture, where you can feel the roundness of the bass, there’s a little bit of reverb on everything, and there’s a darkness to it, but at the same time there’s so much power. ”
Zac (Doom Trip Records) via Bandcamp Daily
https://daily.bandcamp.com/label-profile/doom-trip-records-curating-the-eclectic-underground-one-tape-at-a-time
We have a great couple of releases lined up for January, the first being the brand new album from Boston’s Skyjelly whose debut just made The Quietus’ Best Tapes of 2016 list. The new one, Gost, is arguably even better. It’s a weird, warped lo-fi psychedelic oddity that couldn’t be better suited to the format. It’s brilliantly fucked up and I can’t wait to release it. There simply isn’t another band around who sound anything like them.
Andrew Fenwick (Eggs in Aspic) via Echoes and Dust
https://echoesanddust.com/2016/12/andrew-fenwick-from-eggs-in-aspic/
"Weird Vibes" - Anthony "The Needle Drop" Fantano
https://twitter.com/theneedledrop/status/1652877316744151042
"started off sounding like the strokes from an alternate universe" - Turning the Tables
https://twitter.com/turningthetbles/status/1652878304377208832
"Has a real Sun City Girls meets On the Corner vibe" - LouReed Tyranny
"What Have You Done sounds like it could be on the edgy soundtrack of a cyberpunk film based on a Neal Stephenson novel.
Featuring drums, guitars, vocals, tambourine, as well as the maracas and techno sounds, this song creates a overlapped sound that makes you want to dance. I put it on repeat-- can’t wait to hear the rest of the album!' - Harmony Witte (Boston Hassle)
Looped claps, drums, and shakers craft a fiery groove and rugged guitars interleave slyly. Echoed and barely intelligible vocals latch around the repetition for a while, then at three minutes a searing guitar solo melts your face right off. Think a Butthole Surfers’ wig out executed with William Onyeabor’s lo-fi funk aesthetic.
Tristan Bath / Quietus - Top 10 Tapes of 2016
https://thequietus.com/articles/21471-bokeh-versions-atlantikwall-preston-field-audio-tapes-of-the-year-2016
Absolutely love this - Nick Cyanide
https://twitter.com/NickCyanide/status/1652716333614743554
Some nice weirdness there - DJ Simon, WZBC
Skyejlly is my favorite artist - waninon https://twitter.com/waninon/status/1653163973171191812
Tracklist
| 1. | I Know | 2:43 |
| 2. | Killer B | 5:35 |
| 3. | Laisse Jeyedin Jeden | 2:59 |
| 4. | What Have You Done | 3:05 |
| 5. | Yaslemle | 3:37 |
| 6. | Yep Hassu | 4:38 |
Credits
Cover art by David Aguirre
License
All rights reserved.
Skyjelly: a psychedelic, desert-blues trip to where the sun is hot and the color of paradise is green. Formed by longtime musical collaborators Skyjelly Jones and Scott Sheik Levesque, this duo channels their collective love of pop, world music and improvisation into a mesmerizing sonic experience.