jhulud Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 SRSQ (pronounced seer-skew) is the solo project of Kennedy Ashlyn (vocalist/keyboardist of Them Are Us Too). Creative voids aren’t filled, but rather holes left that push the edges of the present into new realms of consciousness. SRSQ’s pulse began after the death of Kennedy’s closest friend and TAUT collaborator Cash Askew, a casualty in the sudden and tragic Oakland Ghost Ship Fire of 2016. Driven by loss, SRSQ became the vehicle for Kennedy’s transformative process, exploring nuance, nostalgia, reflection, and reconciliation, manifesting in the aural landscape of Unreality. As a debut, Unreality is entrance into a new form of storytelling, traversing the present while pulling from a deep swath of experience, immersion, and sound. Like the impulse it pulls from, each song evokes the complex duality of meditation—where simple intersects with infinite. Ambient synthesizers that approach harshness, relentless arpeggiations act together with Kennedy’s vocals as a lush weapon, weaving cloudlike fables over orchestration that’s familiar and foreign. Trance-like at times, yet always rooted in cadence and structure, the synesthesia of sound and feeling takes cues from the delicate miasma of Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, or Dead Can Dance, using their example as the ground floor for building a new temple of frequency. Kennedy proves an adept architect of rhythm, using sequenced electronics as a deep backbeat that allows the harrowing beauty of her vocals to lead the journey. Produced by Matia Simovich of Inhalt, Unreality is simultaneously crisp and full, each tone and note occupying its own unique sonic world - grief butted against power, tracked to a heavy heartbeat. SRSQ Unreality will be out October 26th on CD, LP, and digital formats. Vinyl editions are issued in thick matte jackets with printed euro inner sleeves with lyrics - on silver vinyl (100 copies), black/clear vinyl (400 copies) and standard black vinyl. CD comes in sturdy cardstock matte digipack with lyrics. https://www.daisrecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/srsq-unreality-cd-lp lexicondevil 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicondevil Posted August 22, 2018 Share Posted August 22, 2018 Very excited for this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish Posted November 6, 2019 Share Posted November 6, 2019 New limited 7" available, but after shipping/tax it is almost $18: https://www.daisrecords.com/collections/releases/products/srsq-temporal-love-unkept Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 $18 shipped?!?! Oof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Dais has gotten out of control with their shipping since they started contracting it out to some 3rd party company. $5.50+tax to ship a 7" media mail kills this for me. Especially when they ship from less than 3 miles from my house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnMatrix Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Agreed. I am not buying as much from Dais anymore because of the shipping costs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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