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Gunshots at Crestridge (2016 lp, Blackest Ever Black)

by People Skills

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    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

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    Prevention Point - A Philadelphia harm reduction organization on the front lines of the opioid crisis. Promoting health, empowerment and safety for communities disproportionately affected by drug use and poverty. https://ppponline.org/
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    Project SAFE - A grassroots direct-service and peer-based advocacy organization of: women, non-binary, gender non-conforming, and trans sex workers, providing women and femme-centered services to those working and living in the street economies of Philadelphia.
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  • First edition 140g vinyl.
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    First edition 140g vinyl. Cut by Noel Summerville, pressed at Optimal and housed in reverse-board picture sleeve with printed inner bag.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Gunshots at Crestridge (2016 lp, Blackest Ever Black) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Graciously welcoming the second full-length lp 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 NZ 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 (wilfully) mawkish, bubblegum ground underfoot. Each piece as time-stopping and evocative as an old photograph of someone who used to mean something. 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 our tiny acts of self-sabotage, all our sins against time. When to stay, when to go...you never got it right, not once.

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released December 2, 2016

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