supernowhere - Skinless Takes a Flight [180g Red Vinyl, OBI Strip]

Cat. no: LPTSR237X
Format: LP 180g Red Vinyl, OBI Strip
Barcode: 634457077997
Release Date: 08 Sep 2023
Genre: Rock

The majority of the nine slithery songs that comprise supernowhere's Skinless Takes A Flight were originally cuts that didn't make their debut Gestalt

But after collectively moving across the country from Burlington, VT to Seattle, WA, the scrapped tracks transformed substantially into forid, at times entrancing compositions.

The pulsating "Circles" opens the album with lilted refections on empathy, breathing in midtempo syncopation with subdued guitar tip- toeing around melodic drumming. supernowhere's cast of Meredith Davey (bass, vocals), Kurt Pacing (guitar, vocals), and Matt Anderson (drums) share a collective ambition for maximum interplay and collaborative writing, materializing cleanly knotted compositions that evoke vivid dreamscapes and the profound epiphanies drawn from them ("The Hand", "Ecdysis"). On upbeat "Dirty Tangle" Davey's voice glides through Pacing's angular arpeggiations, carving her own rhythmic lane with her distinctive, descanting singing style.

"Skinless Takes A Flight" notably would not have come to fruition without the help of engineer Dylan Hanwright (mix. Gulfer, mem. Great Grandpa, I Kill Giants), whom the band met shortly after relocating to Seattle. Hanwright offered up the studio where the album was recorded as a temporary rehearsal and writing space during the pandemic, which in turn gave him intimate familiarity with the music, resulting in an album that was recorded as intimately as it was written. Hanwright helped make the little moments shine too, as heard in the feeting vocal harmonies on "Augury", or the spiraling chaos in "Basement Window," a further testament to the collaborative, everyone's-input-matters nature that characterizes supernowhere's dizzying yet meditative sophomore record.

LP 180g Red Vinyl, OBI Strip Tracks: Circles / Dirty Tangle / Amphibian / Basement Window / Skinless Takes A Flight / Augury / The Hand / Gently Inert / Ecdysis