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Skunk

by Well Yells

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1.
Crawl 03:36
chela brink plains end echo crawl to think el cielo sucio mull and thaw stains the future crows will caw bending azure follow ghosts languished tangle melting hosts fear of angle palindrome specular sever honeycomb comb forever
2.
Skunk 05:30
monitor delay negative ballet close to say knowing it’s a trap filling in the gap poison in the sap forty years of electrocution gonna be ready for skunk fire in the air with the ground’s collusion manic ties fall over skunk fluid for a moment then panic confusion survival unintentional skunk focus on metal or radio midsole tool to blemish face choose what gets erased feeling out of place filling in the gap poison in the sap static in your eyes from a mass contortion enemy eponymous skunk filter obelisk past malediction crashing through aluminum skunk
3.
Near 04:59
throw balance trace so fleecing ice remember the place hollow tree stares dive into abyss stars resonate pairs invisible blue maligning the here hadean cue drawing us near bending your arm look into the dark forgetting the harm snowfall and lark above the earth without leaving a mark
4.
Anniversary 03:48
hone the dim sky walking through the graveyard until no one can see feeling the grass pulling on chains in your sleep hide in the hole there is more to existence than what you can see we block out the sun an anniversary of wind and rain inverted tree landfall purple meaning then howling dogs the markers are gone the bridges are made from your bones
5.
Light 02:31
6.
Shadows 03:32
filling a cup without a molar to wind staying awake for a silver of fin roots in the sky and a mirror of pins seashells are sighs eclipse is tin icicle ward ward them away brittle foley past neptune’s sway bien mal acquis ne profite jamais mountains of ash appease the today sometimes it’s hard to tell what is real and what are shadows but shadows are real shadows are real ember of night startles the throw poison ennui section of no axes of drawers promising snow lose it up high find it below
7.
Inanna 09:31
8.
Surface 02:06

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“...Well Yells distills the gothic-leaning edges of ’80s British post-punk... his work is not about mimicry, but about capturing the hypnotic atmosphere that makes the best post-punk feel like a whole world to enter.” - Marc Masters, Hi Bias/Bandcamp Daily

“...crawling, despondent postgoth and slowcore that sounds like it's coming from a captive who's given up on ever escaping from the bottom of Buffalo Bill's pit in The Silence of the Lambs. Creepy! Fans of trenchcoat fare such as Black Tape for a Blue Girl and Clan of Xymox should dig the gloomy, synthetic atmospheres on Well Yells' new tape, Skunk, with their drifting synths, brittle guitars, tick-tocking drum machine, and remote, morose vocals.” - Gossip Wolf/Chicago Reader

“...vocals are even more cloaked, choruses less immediately obvious, settings turned thicker and heavier... as if Skunk is now less that sound of what goes into the well than what’s managed to escape its gravitational pull.” - Ian Mathers, Dusted Magazine

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released March 9, 2018

Written, performed, recorded, mixed, vocals, synths, guitar, drum machine programming, and design by Patrick Holbrook ©2018 all rights reserved.

Cover skunk photo by Saguaro National Park
American hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus leuconotus)
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Photo was cropped, desaturated, tone adjusted, and some minor visual elements were erased.

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Well Yells imagines the entity you call to at the bottom of a well.

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