A new album release from SKELLA delivers a driving alternative rock soundscape that lends itself to a little bit of an underground '90s grunge and rock approach as well and it all comes through with a massively cinematic underbelly because it's got a robust character that you end up attaching yourself to.
The Finding Nirvana album can be perceived as having a sort of beautiful approach and it comes through gracefully and with a very honest tonality lyrically so that you know it's coming from someplace very real.
There is something peaceful about this record and it feels like there was a lot of inner thought that had to come out for this to be created so perhaps this was very cathartic for the artist to write and release but for the listener, it could be very relatable.
Lyrically, the whole record is genuine, and while musically it is sonically massive and has this radio rock approach with as much edginess as it does color and character.
The drums hit hard, and the guitar tones are riddled with great distortion so the whole track has that expansive kind of feel to it where it's almost anthemic at times.
I love the combination of the inner thought and the emotional drive with that heavy rock edge because that's not something you get all the time and when you do sometimes it doesn't work the way it was meant to but here it's perfect.
This is a record that has a message and a deeper meaning behind it, and this is part of what gives it so much character and so much personality.
Certain tracks on the record have a vaster undertone to them so that they feel more expansive and that's because of the mix of some of them.
Some of these tracks are dripping with reverb giving them that distance to feeling but that adds to that emotion.
It's pretty rare to hear an album of this size go into so many different places and how honest these songs come through, so you get the feeling that each of these songs is like a chapter in the artist's life and this is most certainly a record that you want to listen to as a whole.
Listening to one or two tracks may give you a little gist of the whole thing but it does not give you the full spectrum of what it has to offer as an album.
It's an album that wraps itself around you and keeps you right where it wants to. It's engulfing all the best ways because you understand exactly where it's coming from.
SKELLA is a perfect example of an artist that puts a piece of himself into his music and that's what makes it so authentic a lot of the time.
His music is often heavy rock sometimes with post-punk elements and very emotionally real and present.
Upon listening to this record, I took a little bit of a deep dive into his back catalog and when I did, I found a lot of amazing releases that show different sides of him as a person and how he creates his music.
What's amazing is that this whole thing is done by one person it would seem. I'm not sure if he's a multi-instrumentalist exactly or if he brings other people in to build the songs but either way, this is a record that will stay with you for a while after you listen to it.
Certain tracks stay bouncing around in your brain for hours or even days and the only way to satiate that is to go and listen to them again.
This is a record that had a certain kind of effect on me, and I would suggest you pop on some headphones or turn it nice and loud on the stereo and listen to it all the way through to see how it affects you.
Remember where you heard it first.
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