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Telephone Booth (2019 c47, All Gone)

by People Skills

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People Skills - Telephone Booth C47 written, performed and recorded by Jesse Dewlow 2012-217. Compiled June 2019.

Photograph from the Alfred P. Sebastian Archives 1969-1995.

Thanks to Chris Durham

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released July 26, 2019

Down a straight & narrow path perfect in it’s symmetry the sound is the vessel clanking around historic roads meant for horses not the assembly lines hellish rubber treads, purposeful yonder’s through city Debris still leaving room for pleasant accidental sceneries.

Jesse has been riding a wave at his own speed for years now with his project People Skills very excited to get back into the groove together after label hiatus. On this release the soundscapes come across like Jandek & Brian Eno decided to collaborate after a case of Natty Boh & couple hoagie sandwiches on a hot day, once these deconstructed Pop Nuggets were done they then handed the master tapes over to Cherry Red records for post production too add that misanthropic industrial dreaminess heard on recordings such as Two Daughters or Thomas Leer.

This tape will leave you glued in your seat, drifting in thought only to snap out in a sparse drum roll over & under Tremolo laced sustain.
Not recommended for driving dangerously narcoleptic.

-All Gone

“Dewlow’s more conventionally musical side gets the spotlight on his “Telephone Booth” cassette. The overall mood still seems to be informed by codeine and heat stroke, but for the most part “Telephone Booth” is an album of songs played on guitars and keyboards with that damned drum machine still making sickly clicks as Dewlow distractedly moans verses and choruses. If you squint, you can imagine this to be the demo cassette for a future Kranky album, distortion and mistakes left in with the intent to smooth them all out later. However, I know that the blemishes are part of the package, preserved on tape as the artist’s intentional signature. Still, if you like Stars of the Lid or Labradford and can mentally conjure what they might sound like if they made their albums on a dusty Tascam pulled from beneath a bed on a slow Sunday afternoon while all players have nasty head colds, you’d get pretty close to “Telephone Booth”.

-Howard Stelzer, Vital Weekly

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