Watch: Skeppet “Den Nya Kusten”

23 Apr 2014 — Trey Reis

Doing these write-ups can be so interesting. Sometimes, I receive an email about something new coming out and I’ll recognize a band name, microgenre tag, or just a label and decide to check it out. Sometimes, I’m thinking, “Hey, I wonder what [band] has been up to recently,” so I check their Bandcamp releases, Soundcloud posts, etc. And sometimes you kind of fall into something through a complex series of links and wonder, which, without the forward and backward buttons, would be entirely impossible to recreate. To me, this is the only way to actually get lost on the Internet. Obscured at the destination. Caught between the possibilities of search engines. And your trail of bread crumbs disappeared into the gamma glow of the computer screen.

Staring at the juxtaposed images of this video for a track entitled “Den Nya Kusten” by a band called Skeppet, I felt that haziness of being lost where I was. This wasn’t one to save for later. Who knows what distractions the Home button would hold. This write-up had to be done now before the filters and information of the Internet obscured the state of wonder its finding and 8-minutes of synth textures left me in. And the only information I have for you is that it’s an excerpt from a forthcoming LP on Not Not Fun entitled Phase 3. No date besides “2014”. It kind of reminds me a bit of that Branches tape from a couple of years ago. The one that came out on Solid Melts. Check it out. Get lost, find something, and keep an ear open for the whole thing sometime later this year as NNF282.