SKLOSS

Surrounded by drums and amps and the need to play loud, indulging in their heaviest and
gentlest impulses all at once, SKLOSS blends elements of heavy psychedelia, post-metal
drones, meditative drums, and distorted riffs performed with honesty and deliberation. The
result is a powerful atmospheric wall of Space Gaze unique only to SKLOSS.
The duo’s project is an offshoot of their lives as creative professionals. Karen Skloss, a
filmmaker who has been on Barack Obama’s pick list and edited seminal films about artists
Syd Barrett and Townes Van Zandt, and Sandy Carson, a former professional BMX pro rider
turned photographer & cinematographer, enjoy new creative frontiers with the project.
“Living next to the woods has something to do with it,” says Carson. SKLOSS originally formed
as a husband-wife duo between guitarist Carson (Iglomat) and drummer Skloss (Moving
Panoramas) during the COVID lockdown. “We started to use music as an outlet, like most
everyone during that time, we were so cooped up,” says Skloss. Jams became songs, while
the noise level, experimentation, and distortion went up to a volume much louder than you’d
expect from a duo. The sonic sound of SKLOSS became a response to the crazy world just
outside their window. The living room became their practice space and place of meditation.
A self-released debut EP 'Voices Travel Through This' was released in 2022, then following only
a handful of dynamic live shows under their belt sharing the stage with acts like Messa, The
Well, Glorium, and Oryx, SKLOSS were added to play a set at the 2022 Levitation Festival in
Austin, TX.
During the rollercoaster Austin, TX winter of 2023, SKLOSS holed up at Point West Studios
with engineer Charles Godfrey (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Swans) and recorded their S/T debut LP for
release in 2024.
An immersive audio/visual meditative performance and collaboration ’Aether’ with Iconic artist
Thomas Hooper took place in a concrete culvert atColab Projects in February 2024 ahead of
SKLOSS playing several shows during SXSW.
It’s like The Jesus & Mary Chain
playing Kyuss. Not a moment
wasted either, there’s no filler
anywhere. David Majury,
Slomatics

Tribal conversations between
the drums and guitars, wide open
big sounds, powerful, it reminds me
of earth, like the solidity of the
ground or a mountain. -Greg
Hughes, Still Corners.