Blank Panthers / Priest, Expert, or Wizard, by Skyjelly

Blank Panthers / Priest, Expert, or Wizard

by Skyjelly

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spildprodukt Imagine sitting in your trailer in the deep south watching a warping 1970s giallo VHS tape from the thrift shop while your neighbor screws around with his radio with poor reception on the porch, and you've got a good idea of what to expect from this album.
Heavy grooves, fuzzy swamp blues and sprinklings of sweet radio friendly pop ballads and high energy punk all wrapped up in a neat lo-fi package, bow and all.

An absolute delight to listen to from start to finish. Favorite track: Krilltastica.

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1.	Sixes 05:55		buy track
2.	Acosta 05:11		buy track
3.	Seamagnet 04:41		buy track
4.	Krilltastica 06:19		buy track
5.	Can't Take My Mind 03:14		buy track
6.	Subway Rider 03:26		buy track
7.	Attention Spam 01:40		buy track
8.	Catherine's Rabbi 05:03		buy track
9.	Orange & Blue 03:50		buy track
10.	Watch Out 03:29		buy track
11.	All Around Me 01:55		buy track
12.	Down the Road 04:24		buy track
13.	Headphone Jack 02:52		buy track
14.	That's Where the Modern Is 03:14		buy track
15.	Babies in Light (Bonus) 02:21		buy track
16.	Solomon's Theme (Bonus) 01:37		buy track
17.	High Neighbor (Lord of Overstock Remix) (Bonus) 03:29	info	buy track
18.	Seamagnet (Nicholas Langley Remix) (Bonus) 02:25	info	buy track

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Originally released on Doom Trip Records

doomtrip.bandcamp.com/album/blank-panthers-priest-expert-or-wizard-2

2023 version adds 2 bonus tracks + 2 remixes courtesy of Lord of Overstock and Nick Langley (Third Kind Tapes)!

Featured in Top 10 Tapes of 2016 by Quietus

thequietus.com/articles/21471-bokeh-versions-atlantikwall-preston-field-audio-tapes-of-the-year-2016

Boston’s Skyjelly are a band who appreciate how a bit of lo-fi entropy fits into their songs. This release assembles an EP and album by the band onto a translucent blue cassette, and opening track ‘Sixes’ is a pretty instant winner of multilayered psychedelia.

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.

The first side keeps the energy up, with the swampy and bass-heavy ‘Acosta’, or a garage rock jam led by a thumb-piano lick called ‘Seamagnet’. The gentler melody on ‘Krilltastica’ is nonetheless roughed up with lo-fidelity beats punching their way through. Side two is arguably more focused and somewhat less strange, concentrating more on the songs themselves than concocting a gravy of beat loops and fuzzy guitar solos.

Acoustic guitars appear throughout, as do warm keyboard washes and more conventionally assembled rhythm tracks, but it’s still a sonic grab bag heading in a dozen directions. ‘Watch Out’ employs punkier energy and adds some killer shredding - and laughably moronic slide noodling. A heartfelt acoustic ditty quickly follows - ‘All Around Me’ - which is closer to Iron & Wine than any wig out music.

For good measure this is then followed by a mess of tribal drum machines and Mark E Smith vocals. ‘That's Where the Modern Is’ is the climax of sorts, and Skyjelly puncture and deflate a sweetly sentimental slow number with an increasingly chaotic ocean of looped and layered vocal tracks. They spiral way out of control by the end, as if a 12" of 10cc’s "I’m Not In Love" were left out to warp in a September heat wave

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released August 28, 2016

Skyjelly Jones
Dave Melanson
Eric (Jones) Hudson
Scott Sheik Levesque

Blank Panthers recorded by Dave Auchenbach (Small Factory, Lightning Bolt)

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skyjelly Boston, Massachusetts

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. ... more

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