
Portland, OR's Eat Skull were once known for the sort of blown-out punk some called shitgaze but the band have begun turning the levels down to 9.3 and the band's move from Siltbreeze to Woodsist is telling. Eat Skull III , which came out back in February on Woodsist, is on the jangly side with forays into weird synth postpunk, plus melodies and everything. You can stream vaguely tropical "How Do I Know When To Say Goodnight?" as well as the whole album via Spotify, below. [...]
The SOTO inbox is always full of cool stuff that never gets to see the light of day on the actual site, and I’d like to change that. So, every Friday I’ll be posting the best album streams and videos that were sent my way during the week. Take a scroll and find something worth remembering. FULL ALBUM STREAMS How To Destroy Angels - Welcome Oblivion Sally Shapiro - Somewhere Else The M Machine - Metropolis Pt. II [...]
The breadth of new 2013 music releases - albums, EPs and singles - that have been coming out in recent weeks, and those set to drop in the ensuing months, have been keeping us very busy, especially when you factor in all of the DIY releases that we receive on a weekly basis, which are [...] Read more, get songs or stream the entire mix on Indie Rock Cafe

Have Eat Skull used their time away to record a stellar album or just another "shitgaze" collection to add to the pile? Woodsist, 2013 2.0 / 10 Three years is a long time...

Eat Skull show us just how fun acid can be. Portland, Oregon-based garage psych pop band Eat Skull released its third album, the appropriately titled III, this week through Woodsist. To celebrate the...
Gurgly trippiness abound:
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III out today on Woodsist.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars I'm late to the party on this one, having only recognized Eat Skull by name, rather than by their previous efforts. That being said, III seems like a good place to start for me, as it's already made me a champion of the work the band are creating. If, like me, you're new to the band, then come along as I take you on my first journey with the band, which has already been an exceptional trip. [...]
In the mid-'00s, anything with enough lo-fi, in-the-red noise could make a splash. At times it became difficult to pick out which record came from which band, and what genre was sitting underneath all of that fuzz. As that trend faded, the bands that stuck around either continued to champion the noise or pulled it back to reveal their core. Portland's Eat Skull tends toward the latter with their third album, appropriately titled III, with Rob Enborn's garage hooks and throaty vocals spun closer into focus. Rod Meyer explained to Impose Magazine [...]
The SOTO inbox is always full of cool stuff that never gets to see the light of day on the actual site, and I’d like to change that. So, every Friday I’ll be posting the best album streams and videos that were sent my way during the week. Take a scroll and find something worth remembering. FULL ALBUM STREAMS Eat Skull - III Matmos - The Marriage Of True Minds Iceage - You're Nothing Holy Wave - [...]

Tweet Portland's lo-fi garage rockers Eat Skull have just released their latest collection of ramshackled wonder in the form of III, to state the obvious, their third album. The long awaited follow up to 2009's Wild And Inside, III is a more nuanced and expansive record that sees Rob Enbom and Rod Meyer employ a wider array of styles and make use of damaged synth textures to great effect. Check out two tracks below which are indicative of the new direction. III is [...]

Douglas Martin salutes you and the Sour Diesel. As good as Eat Skull’s debut was, their sophomore record established them as one of the unsung heroes of America’s basement scene. Wild and Inside was not a tour-de-force, a head-first blitzkrieg like its predecessor, it was a unheralded classic. It was propulsive, it was eerie, it was triumphant. It was fucked up, but in a human way. It showed us ways out (“ Cooking Up a Way to Be Happy ”), it showed us to be optimistic (“ Oregon Dreaming [...]

I'll be playing tunes this Friday at Hawthorne Theatre with my good pal, DJ Bob Ham . It's always a fun time-I mean, it is Happy Hour on a Friday. I suppose the goal will be to get things warmed up/getting people hot and bothered for the Hot Water Music show later that evening. I think we can do it. But despite what the photo to the left implies, we won't be spinning records. Instead we will be gazing into the glow of our laptops, which will likely resemble two grown men playing Battleship. Less sexy than [...]
Right, so January is over and done with, and it's time to get back into the usual music industry swing of things (at least until everyone goes to get wankered at SXSW, anyway.) There are plenty of decent records to be heard in February 2013, so without further ado, here is our regular monthly roundup of the albums we reckon are going to be worth hearing over the next four weeks, from brainy electronica to decidedly brainless sea shanties, with a whole bunch of other stuff in between. If there's anything we missed, do feel free to take to the [...]
We're back! Let's get it going. Enjoy. : STRFKR - Say To You : I probably could have brought the site back online with just this relaxed, headphone-worthy track from STRFKR , and all of you would have been satisfied. It really is that good. The now highly anticipated Miracle Mile is due out February 19 via Polyvinyl . : Kirby Kaiser - Every Time : Kirby Kaiser is only 20, but she's already churning out some great stuff. For instance, this song, which is charming enough to make even [...]
It's Friday, which means the first working week of 2013 is over — rejoice! It also means that it's time for us to round up the 10 most noteworthy tracks of the week that's gone by, and happily there's some decent tunes to be had again after a pretty fallow holiday week. Specifically, there's a hitherto unreleased Sufjan Stevens track, new Factory Floor, a bunch of interesting remixes involving everything from shoegaze to neo-R&B, Skrillex aping Burial to hilarious effect... and, yes, the depressing Azealia Banks/Angel Haze shitfight. Click through and get listening. [...]

The top mp3s have gone through many incarnations since the beginning of Consequence of Sound in 2007. What used to be an exhaustive roundup of all the singles, remixes, covers, and undiscovered gems emailed to us any given week evolved into a compilation whittled down to our 10 favorite new songs. For 2013, we're again changing up the format with the hope of giving our selections some added weight. We're still posting about our 10 favorite songs, but they'll be ordered in quality from 10-1. Who takes home #1 in this inaugural week? You'll have to click 'Next' to [...]

2013 has a lot of great things coming our way, and I wasn't really expecting to be as blown away by this new Eat Skull track, which only adds to my list of lofty expectations for the new year. At first, I sort of felt like I was immersed in a Wes Anderson moment, but then the song sort of began to fill with a bit more noise, so if it's an Anderson homage, then perhaps this is one of those rare action scenes. I love the distance between the vocals and the listener, creating [...]
One of the best things about watching a band that uses murk and fuzz as an extra instrument, like Eat Skull, is seeing how they let their natural pop instincts—which are inevitably buried somewhere in ... read more