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Former January Ending Through 52 Weeks lp
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited-edition pressing of 350 copies on black vinyl housed in high-quality reverse board jackets w/ lyrics/insert.
Includes unlimited streaming of Former January Ending Through 52 Weeks (2020 reissue lp, Sophomore Lounge)
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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.
credits
released April 4, 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.
supported by 10 fans who also own “Former January Ending Through 52 Weeks (2020 reissue lp, Sophomore Lounge)”
Short and sweet, no wasted moments, subtle guitar lines make it easy to miss how inventive they are. I actually appreciate the live to tape recordings including whatever is going on in the background; it's not obtrusive. And some electronic dabbling. An intimate album fans of bedroom folk, Vashti Bunyan, etc will appreciate and love more with repeated listens. Anthony Childs
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