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01. PEOPLE SKILLS - Obstinate Truss
02. PEOPLE SKILLS - Gunshots At Crestridge
03. PEOPLE SKILLS - In The Mulch And Trimming
04. PEOPLE SKILLS - A Chain Undressed
05. PEOPLE SKILLS - Mint Julep
06. PEOPLE SKILLS - Town Of Diana
07. PEOPLE SKILLS - Gunshots At Crestridge II
08. PEOPLE SKILLS - 89¢ Public Render
09. PEOPLE SKILLS - Dust In The Old House
10. PEOPLE SKILLS - The Clock Player
ARTIST
TITLE
Gunshots At Crestridge
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
BLACKEST 055LP BLACKEST 055LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/30/2016

Gunshots At Crestridge is the second full-length album from Philadelphia's Jesse Dewlow, recording under the moniker People Skills. The follow-up to 2014's Siltbreeze set, Tricephalic Head. Ten sunken songs, derisively adorned with rhythm and rudimentary dub effects. Bedroom elegies for the lost and irretrievable, last-ditch spells for transformation and renewal. Thurston Moore and Byron Coley likened the previous record to "South Island New Zealand pop played inside of an armored car," and that description holds here: underneath the hoods of these wracked and weather-beaten recordings are melodies of disarming beauty and optimism, bordering on the (willfully) mawkish, bubblegum ground underfoot. Whether speaking through stately keyboard pastorals ("Mint Julep"), rat-arsed rock 'n roll slur ("89¢ Public Render") or sulphurous aggro-electronics (the two-part title track), Gunshots At Crestridge exposes, then seeks to redeem, all of our tiny acts of self-sabotage, all of our sins against time.