{"id":2445105,"date":"2026-06-04T18:10:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2445105"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T18:10:51","slug":"new-music-you-shouldnt-miss-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-music-you-shouldnt-miss-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music You Shouldn&#8217;t Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Skerik<\/strong><br \/><em>SKERIK 061725<\/em><br \/>(Loosegroove)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seattle saxophonist Skerik (aka Eric Walton) has done seemingly everything a musician can do in his 30-year career. Even a cursory rundown of his activities would exceed my word count, but, real quick: He\u2019s toured with Roger Waters and Les Claypool, guested on Sunn O)))\u2019s <em>Monoliths &amp; Dimensions<\/em>, and headed over a dozen bands, including Critters Buggin (hybridized jazz, rock, whirled music), DRKWAV (sinister, beat-oriented soundtrackage), Garage A Trois (Medeski Martin &amp; Wood\u2013like jazz funk), and Sound Cipher (dystopian sci-fi synth journeys). With his new LP for Stone Gossard and Regan Hagar\u2019s Loosegroove (out now), Skerik has plunged into ambient music with aplomb.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Premonitions of <em>SKERIK 061725<\/em> can be heard on the desolately touching \u201cEntropy Pool\u201d from Sound Cipher\u2019s <em>All That Syncs Must Diverge<\/em>, parts of Critters Buggin\u2019s <em>Amoeba<\/em>, and the 2001 solo joint <em>Psychochromatic<\/em>. But overall, the layered saxophonics of <em>061725<\/em> is Skerik like you\u2019ve never heard him. He describes it as \u201cdon\u2019t-wake-the-baby music.\u201d His ferocious fire-breathing sax blasts, funky syncopations, and malevolent electronics have taken a hiatus for soothing ambience that caresses your synapses from the first seconds of opening track \u201cSynesthesia.\u201d No surprise that Skerik cites Eno\u2019s <em>Ambient 1: Music for Airports<\/em> and the ECM label\u2019s spacious jazz as inspirations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People, I hear about 993 ambient albums per year, so it takes a lot for one to cause more than a shoulder shrug. And <em>SKERIK 061725<\/em> zeroes in on that low, lonely sound that chills you out and spurs you to meditate on life\u2019s most profound matters. Heads, you win.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Debt Rag<\/strong><br \/><em>It Is Clear What\u2019s Going On<\/em><br \/>(Post Present Medium)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With their longest song clocking in at 2:25 and their shortest at 23 seconds, Olympia trio Debt Rag don\u2019t mess around while making their caustic points on <em>It Is Clear What\u2019s Going On<\/em>. Percussionist Lillian Maring, bassist Marissa Magic, and keyboardist\/trumpeter Max Nordile clearly have a potent chemistry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-3    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Debt Rag\u2019s 2023 debut album, <em>Lost to the Fantasy<\/em>, roughed up punk with math-rock strangeness and fuck-off timbres. On <em>It Is Clear<\/em>, they\u2019ve reached a new peak with advances in art-damaged song structure and off-kilter vocal interplay\u2014plus, everyone sings with a loopy conviction you won\u2019t easily forget. Nordile yelps like Nick Cave\u2019s understudy in Birthday Party, Maring and Magic channel Lydia Lunch in harangue mode. Magic\u2019s bass leads the way, grunting like a rutting beast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The title track is staccato art rock with witchy undertones and wicked cowbell, while \u201cCold Kitchenette\u201d harnesses Six Finger Satellite and Brainiac\u2019s electro-rock recklessness. \u201cSyzygy\u201d makes <em>Trout Mask Replica<\/em> sound like the Eagles; it\u2019s crazy in the most cunning way. Several rickety yet indomitable songs\u2014especially \u201cBeat the Clock\u201d\u2014move with Rube Goldberg machine logic. \u201cGary\u2019s World\u201d is the closest they come to a single, as toy piano, bass, and drums cohere into a damnably catchy anti-anthem bursting with Kleenex\/LiLiPUT energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-4    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On <em>It Is Clear<\/em>, it sounds as if Debt Rag have invented a whole new mathematical system for their unruly music. Don\u2019t believe the pessimists who say rock is dead. In Debt Rag\u2019s mischievous hands, it\u2019s writhing with pugnacious life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Seattle-area musicians can send music to NewSeattleMusic@TheStranger.com for possible coverage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thestranger.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SkerikSKERIK 061725(Loosegroove) Seattle saxophonist Skerik (aka Eric Walton) has done seemingly everything a musician can do in his 30-year career. Even a cursory rundown of his activities would exceed my word count, but, real quick: He\u2019s toured with Roger Waters and Les Claypool, guested on Sunn O)))\u2019s Monoliths &amp; Dimensions, and headed over a dozen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2445106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2445105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/New-Music-You-Shouldnt-Miss.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445107,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445105\/revisions\/2445107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2445106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}