PEOPLE SKILLS "Former January Ending Through 52 Weeks", by People Skills

PEOPLE SKILLS "Former January Ending Through 52 Weeks"

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1.	Rose Citadel 04:16	buy track
2.	Theme Through an Obstacle 05:19	buy track
3.	Almost All of the Time 02:45	buy track
4.	Prelude to Blight 06:19	buy track
5.	Remnants of Bleak Hallucination 02:23	buy track
6.	Atlantic City 02:34	buy track
7.	Blight 04:31	buy track
8.	Es Macht Keinen Sinn 03:00	buy track
9.	Bright Tossed Spire 04:48	buy track
10.	Silver on the Braid 04:12	buy track
11.	Copper Whip 04:00	buy track

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“Sophomore Lounge gifts us a vinyl reissue of People Skills, Former January Ending Through 52 Weeks, which was quietly released by Saga House in 2016. Inzane Johnny called it “the best tape of 2016, hunting them down is akin to finding an application to an avant ballet on the rings of Saturn”.

People Skills is the recording project of Jesse Dewlow and he’s been recording under the moniker in Philly for almost 13 years now. There’s been a few cassettes and lp’s on Siltbreeze and Blackest Ever Black. People Skills is a great name and frankly when you hear the music you immediately assume whomever made it has none. There is just something so Philly about Jesse’s music. Read about this music you’ll find a lot of people making bold comparisons to mad degrees across the globe, but I’ll save you the finger work. I run it up me dome lit in a lineage so very local: the early woobled Wollensack-era US Girls, those absolutely blunted early Social Junk cassettes, melted Kurt Vile demos in Wharton Esherick’s basement style and you’re getting close. Remember for me, Philly is an exotic local. The eastern seaboard should be so lucky to have that as backyard.

The inner logic here in People Skills, beyond a cloud of ambiguity, is a remarkable balance between the shattered plaster electronics and Jesse’s melodious chording. The blunted ass casio beats and the haunted lonerman vox riding tremble alongside make it perfect. The encased-in dust-for-a-few-winters production value is just gravy. We got a glut of lonerism on tape we do... but none of it is really so expertly and woozily executed as it is here on People Skills, Former January Ending Through 52 Weeks. So thanks to Jesse for the sore-audio vision and thanks to Ryan at Sophomore Lounge for putting it out, with care, on wax.”

-Alex Moskos, Montreal Feb 2020.

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released April 24, 2020

Photographs from the Alfred P. Sebastian Archives 1969 - 1995. All songs written, performed, and recorded by Jesse S. Dewlow in South Philadelphia in the winter of 2016. Originally released as Saga House 01, C60, May 2016, now available thanks to John Olson, and Ryan Davis as Sophomore Lounge 102, April 2020. Sketch by Robert Haskell. Mastered by Jordan Burgis.

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