TIP OF THE TONGUE 10 AUGUST 2008
The Skaters
Physicalities Of The Sensibilities Of Ingrediential Strairways
Eclipse No Cat
LP
OUT OF STOCK!
Brand new long-awaited 2008 full-length vinyl album from The Skaters and easily one of the major releases of the year, a record that fully delivers on their hallucinatory power-vision of channelled vocals inhabiting spectral environs transmuted via the imagined thought-forms of Sun Ra, Angus MacLise, Basil Kirchin and Brion Gysin then obsessively Xeroxed and treated with various entropic strategies in order to muddy the ritual to the point where it feels more akin to a sonic scrying mirror than a simple snapshot. These five tracks represent some of Spencer Clark and James Ferraro's darkest work to date, a nightside epic that takes in percussive Moroccan trance forms, hypnotic keyboard reveries, voices from the pit, the repetition of barbarous name as a mainline to oblivion and some of the murkiest, shadow-populated modern psychedelia ever to blow apart feeble terms like 'noise' and 'drone'. A magical album from two of the most original and consistently mind-blowing underground thinkers. Limited edition, one-time pressing, no re-press. Highly recommended.
