Skryptor's debut album, Luminous Volumes, is out today, a joint release between Skin Graft Records, Aqualamb, and Sleeping Giant Glossolalia.
Stream the album:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/skryptor-dazzling-killmen-craw-aa-etc-releasing-debut-lp-stream-it/
Buy the album – formats include LP, CD, digital, and a 200-page, illustrated book of horror stories:
https://skryptor.bandcamp.com/album/luminous-volumes
More info:
http://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2019/01/skryptor-luminous-volumes.html
"On the first listen, 'Lotus and Mace' [off debut album 'Luminous Volumes'] fits in well with stuff like Earthless and Elder, bands that embrace the transcendent qualities of the rock riff. But then the oddities start to surface: 'Weeding Out' punk/jazz, cyclical riffs that roll around with a stutter, and fiery, nervy playing... You come out the other side just wanting to hear it again, partly to find out what the heck it’s doing and partly because it rocks so hard doing it."
–Stereogum
"Galloping, off-kilter and unabashedly victorious, proggy noise-rock outfit Skryptor's new single 'Red Mountain' takes hard-rock/psychedelic throwback tropes, flips them on their heads and stretches it all into an adventurous march through endlessly shifting soundscapes."
-Revolver
"Across its seven instrumental tracks — two of which pass the nine-minute mark — it touches on noise, math rock, post-hardcore, metal, prog, psych, the avant-garde, and more. It’s an album that often favors dissonance and atonality, but it can be very beautiful at times too. It’s like late-period Black Flag meets early King Crimson meets the trippier side of Black Sabbath, but even those comparisons don’t begin the describe the breadth of musical styles explored on this album."
–BrooklynVegan
"Brooklyn trio Skryptor embody the belligerent swagger of noise rock through a progged-out lens..."
–Decibel
"Skryptor’s sound is sludgy but agile... The album deftly jumps from one highlight to the next. Interludes 'The Orchard, Pt. 1' and 'The Orchard, Pt. 2' sound like some strange mash-up of King Crimson and Captain Beefheart. 'Mystification' is a Voivod-ian trip through space, while 'Red Mountain' is the most straightforward rock-sounding track, like if Sonny Sharrock joined Mountain... 'Luminous Volumes' is crammed full of ideas and inventiveness. Despite the amount of musical information contained in each track, each song is coherent, as is the album as a whole."
–Burning Ambulance
–Stereogum
"Galloping, off-kilter and unabashedly victorious, proggy noise-rock outfit Skryptor's new single 'Red Mountain' takes hard-rock/psychedelic throwback tropes, flips them on their heads and stretches it all into an adventurous march through endlessly shifting soundscapes."
-Revolver
"Across its seven instrumental tracks — two of which pass the nine-minute mark — it touches on noise, math rock, post-hardcore, metal, prog, psych, the avant-garde, and more. It’s an album that often favors dissonance and atonality, but it can be very beautiful at times too. It’s like late-period Black Flag meets early King Crimson meets the trippier side of Black Sabbath, but even those comparisons don’t begin the describe the breadth of musical styles explored on this album."
–BrooklynVegan
"Brooklyn trio Skryptor embody the belligerent swagger of noise rock through a progged-out lens..."
–Decibel
"Skryptor’s sound is sludgy but agile... The album deftly jumps from one highlight to the next. Interludes 'The Orchard, Pt. 1' and 'The Orchard, Pt. 2' sound like some strange mash-up of King Crimson and Captain Beefheart. 'Mystification' is a Voivod-ian trip through space, while 'Red Mountain' is the most straightforward rock-sounding track, like if Sonny Sharrock joined Mountain... 'Luminous Volumes' is crammed full of ideas and inventiveness. Despite the amount of musical information contained in each track, each song is coherent, as is the album as a whole."
–Burning Ambulance
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