Austin/Glasgow duo SKLOSS have announced their debut album ‘The Pattern Speaks’ and are sharing the lead single and title track. Due out March 7th 2025 on London-based label Fuzz Club and engineered/co-produced by Charles Godfrey (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Swans), ‘The Pattern Speaks’ blends heavy psychedelia, post-metal drones, meditative drums, and raw distorted riffs performed with honesty and deliberation.
“Traveler to traveler – The Pattern Speaks is a message in a bottle, a cosmic plea for assistance from the stars, space aliens, or non-human intelligence. It also hints at a way out of our self-made cycles of drudgery and inhumanity.”Across these eight equally pulverising and ethereal tracks, the result is a powerful, atmospheric wall of ‘spacegaze’ that indulges SKLOSS’ heaviest and gentlest sonic impulses all at once. First single ‘The Pattern Speaks’ offers a preview of what’s in store:
SKLOSS first formed in Austin, TX as a husband-and-wife duo between American drummer/vocalist Karen Skloss (Moving Panoramas) and Scottish guitarist/vocalist Sandy Carson (Iglomat) during the COVID lockdown. Surrounded by drums and amps and the need to play loud, the sonic sound of SKLOSS became a response to the crazy world just outside their window. Jams became songs, while the noise level, experimentation and distortion went up to a volume much louder than you’d expect from a duo. “Living next to the woods has something to do with it. We started to use music as an outlet, like most everyone during that time, we were so cooped up,” says Skloss.
A self-released debut EP ‘Voices Travel Through This’ was released in 2022 and after sharing the stage with acts like Divide & Dissolve, Messa, The Well, Glorium, and Oryx, SKLOSS performed a set at the 2022 Levitation Festival. An immersive audio/visual meditative performance and collaboration ’Aether’ with renowned artist Thomas Hooper (whose artwork adorns ‘The Pattern Speaks’) took place in a concrete culvert at Colab Projects in February 2024 ahead of several shows during SXSW. The same cosmic performance was taken to the Iconic Echo Bridge in San Antonio, TX and most recently the James Turrell Skyspace at UT Austin.
Outside of the new creative frontiers explored with the band, Skloss is also a filmmaker who has been on Barack Obama’s pick list and edited seminal films about artists Syd Barrett and Townes Van Zandt, and Carson is a former professional BMX pro rider turned photographer and cinematographer.
UPCOMING SHOWS
21/11 – Austin, TX @ 13th Floor (Single Release Show)
30/11 – Austin, TX – DUO FEST @ Nomad Bar
08/12 – Austin, TX @ James Turrell Skyspace, University of Texas.
15/12 – Austin, TX @ The Empire Control Room
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