{"id":16455,"date":"2025-02-26T20:08:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T20:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=16455"},"modified":"2025-02-26T20:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T20:34:18","slug":"skloss-the-pattern-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/skloss-the-pattern-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Skloss &#8216;The Pattern Speaks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Something is coming your way psych lovers, fuzz lovers, drone lovers and general noise lovers\u2026.and its name is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=61568449864970\">Skloss<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This band seems to have crawled out of the ether (or Texas and Scotland\u2026), 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\u2019s only two of them \u2013 Karen Skloss on drums and vocals and Sandy Carson on guitars- but they make a sound like some colossal galactic implosion!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SKLOSS_TPS_final-digital_cover-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[16455]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SKLOSS_TPS_final-digital_cover-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SKLOSS_TPS_final-digital_cover-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SKLOSS_TPS_final-digital_cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SKLOSS_TPS_final-digital_cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SKLOSS_TPS_final-digital_cover-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SKLOSS_TPS_final-digital_cover-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/SKLOSS_TPS_final-digital_cover-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018The Pattern Speaks\u2019, out very soon on <a href=\"https:\/\/fuzzclub.bandcamp.com\/\">Fuzz Club Records<\/a>, 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\u2019s voice, slightly disembodied and spectral weaves through like vapour trails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SKLOSS - The Pattern Speaks (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pZpr8CgugbQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/517910781138647\">Fuzz Club 2025<\/a> in Eindhoven, they are going to hit like an asteroid \u2013 I can\u2019t wait to get caught in the blast!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/garypowell2323\/\">Gary Powell<\/a>, February 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something is coming your way psych lovers, fuzz lovers, drone lovers and general noise lovers\u2026.and its name is Skloss! 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