LATEST NEWS:
Skirt announce first new recordings since their extremely prolific 3-album assault between 2019-2020. Nothing has been released yet, but there are rumours this may be a full-on Trap-Metal album. Michelle hinted that the album may be instrumental. We’ll just have to wait and see.
As usual, all Skirt releases are streamable and buyable HERE
“SURF STORIES” BY SKIRT, OUT NOW!
Listen to the album, download it or buy the physical album HERE
SURF STORIES – LATHERS LIKE MAGIC!
Surf Stories came out about two months after Skirt’s last album, Safe Ghost; in fact, this is the third release this year.
Due to the covid-19 lockdown situation, Skirt have had much time to write, record and publish new music. Conversely, they have not been able to meet up and record as usual, with both Maiq and Jens being almost entirely absent from this new EP. Jens was able to record some drums and send Mike the files, but most of the drums were played and/or programmed by Mike for these songs. Michelle provided bass as usual, with both her and Mike providing us with an assault of analog keyboards and electric pianos – even the Stylophone is back!
A kind of sequel to 2016’s Sex Stories, Surf Stories continues with tales about yearning for summer, sex and supernatural surfing – yet by using hardly any words as, aside from ‘Allison‘, this is an almost entirely instrumental album! In addition to the four original tracks, there’s even a gnarly rendition of Miserlou (with a few surprises) and the coolest version of the Batman Theme ever recorded!
For Skirt-fans and newcomers alike, Surf Stories is the ultimate Surf-Rock, Punk-Dance album of our times. Check it out!
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News from March, 2020:
After a long wait in Skirt-years, the band have finally released their fourth and fifth studio albums, “California Screamin'” and “Safe Ghost” – a kind of double-album of sorts.
Both albums are out now and available to download or purchase via the band’s Bandcamp page:
California Screamin’ takes the listener on a sun-drenched, drug-infused, groove-porn experiment in an L.A.-meets-Brighton-via-Perth kinda way. If ‘Munchkin’ was Skirt’s epic songwriting extravaganza, ‘California Screamin’ ‘ is the band’s truly eclectic and thoroughly genre-defying experiment. Recorded, produced and mixed by Mike at StandYourSound (as always), the album also highlights some great production wizardry and brilliant mix ideas.
From the liner notes…:’Welcome to a world of songs about pretty things like sun-kissed holidays, botox retreats, office orgies, bellybuttons, vegan porn, salty hair, sandy toes, shark surfing and exchange students!’
A soundtrack to the has-been and forlorn world of Height Ashbury hippies and the yuppies of Brighton (UK), California Screamin’ is the shit. Released on all platforms and streamable from Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Deezer, etc.
Album can be ordered as gorgeous art-print digipak (designed by DharmaAfterDark) via the bandcamp page or our shop.
If California Screamin’ is a sun-infested beach party about pretty things, Safe Ghost is its dark counterpart, with songs about demonic possession, haunted love, evil energies, desperate prayers and stinky sneakers… At last, Skirt’s Hardcore album is here! While still in the vain of genre-crossing to the extreme, Safe Ghost is rooted primarily in heavy, noisy Metal, Hardcore and Grunge. With brief tongue-in-cheek explorations of Trap and Grime, as well as a couple of choral Pop songs and one bizarre avant-garde fusion song, Safe Ghost is meant for headbanging and screaming to. And fucking to, of course – it wouldn’t be Skirt otherwise.
As before, the songs are in English with a couple of pieces in German. This album is available as a stream, download and special designer CD at the band’s Bandcamp page.
OLDER POSTS (PRE 2019):
The third studio album by Skirt was released digitally via Record Union distribution on the 1st of December 2018. The album ‘Munchkin’ is a 14-track, 65 minute long emotional bludgeoning of life, death, snacks at stations and tattoos.
The album was written by Mike (guitars, vocals) during most of 2017, shelved for most of 2018 and then finished in October. Michelle is back with her melodic bass lines, Maiq gives us some cute piano interludes and Jens returns on both live and programmed drums, as usual.
Expect Skirt’s strangest blend of punk, grunge, metal, indie, ska and chamber choirs yet. Special master with bonus track available only on CD. Go to our fucking shop and buy it, damn it!
Find ‘Munchkin’ in iTunes here: iTunes: Munchkin
Listen to Munchkin, download it and buy the awesome art-design digipak here!
The Skirt Story
Skirt initially formed in 2011 as one of Mike Pehrsson’s side projects. Essentially it was a continuation of Hallon Brain (see menu). As vocalist Janie had gotten involved in other projects, Maik began writing and recording demos intended for female vocalists. The project was titled ‘Skirt’ and a few demos were laid down. Vocalists included Jizelle Krauer, Romy Valentina and Linda Lietzow. A two track EP was released publicly on Soundcloud and on a now extinct Bandcamp page.
But the project was shelved when Janie and Mike began gigging as a two-piece and recording more Hallon Brain material.
Until May 2014, after TGE14 – The Great Escape Festival of Brighton, 2015. Bands like St. Pierre’s Snake Invasion, Slaves, Girl Band, The Asylums and Meat Wave inspired Maik and a couple of friends to do something new. Full-on Grunge-punk Garagerock was back!
Mike recorded the first batch of songs at StandYourSound Brighton by October 2014. By the end of the year, the concept had evolved from a straight-ahead garage rock album to a somewhat ominous yet wacky portrayal of the sex-infused aggression of Brighton’s summer, her introverted fetishist winter and the loneliness in between the two. With the help of Jens and Michelle, the album, Closed For Summer, was finalized in February 2015.
The album was released as a stream on Bandcamp, as well as a CD which was sold at gigs. But in the Fall of 2015, Mike did an entirely new master of the album after the band had not been happy with the sound; the song order was changed and a bonus track was added (a flamboyantly angst-ridden version of the Beach Boys’ ‘Surfer Girl’). The album was finalized and re-released in February 2016 through their distributor Record Union.
The album is currently available for purchase in our shop. Find it on Spotify and all the rest of them apps. Here it is on iTunes:
The album was produced by Skirt and mixed & mastered by Mike at StandYourSound. It is currently being ‘home made’ in our own little factory; totally DIY. Album comes in a digipak with mini-booklet.
In the interim, Skirt had recorded a handful of songs that didn’t quite fit on the album, or were written and recorded after the album had been finished. All of them were about one thing and one thing only: sex! A 5-track EP called Sex Stories was put together in April 2016, the bands first proper EP. A great album to make love to. Available in our shop, the usual platforms, etc etc etc…!
Sex Stories has since been re-packaged and features the original ‘sex trilogy’ along with two bonus cover tracks. Album can be ordered in our shop.
An EP called ‘Envy Makes Perfect‘ featuring come rather eclectic covers was just recently released as a freebee, celebrating Brighton’s Great Escape Festival 2019. Stream it here
Discography:
Closed4Summer, 2015:
Sex Stories, 2016:
Munchkin, 2018:
California Screamin’, 2019:
Safe Ghost, 2020
Surf Stories, 2020:
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