Austin/Glasgow duo SKLOSS are back, dragging you into the gravity-warping vortex of their latest sonic creation, “Imagine 100 Dads,” a song as surreal as its title suggests.
This is the second single from their freshly announced debut album, The Pattern Speaks, out March 7th via London-based Fuzz Club. Engineered and co-produced by Charles Godfrey (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Swans), the record is a fever dream of heavy psychedelia, post-metal drones, meditative percussion, and riffs that hit like tectonic plates colliding in slow motion.
Across eight tracks, SKLOSS constructs an immense, atmospheric wall of ‘spacegaze’—music that exists somewhere between celestial weightlessness and the crushing force of a black hole. It’s heavy. It’s ethereal. It will absolutely swallow you whole.
Following their recent single and title track, “The Pattern Speaks,” SKLOSS describes “Imagine 100 Dads” as “a cathartic shifting of darkness into light.” It’s a song born from the intensity of grief and the strange beauty of release.
The band says: “We finished writing it just as we helped Karen’s dad cross over, so it has a personal edge, but the journey can be applied to anything.”
Think of it as an auditory exorcism that invites you to scream, dissolve, and emerge transformed on the other side.
SKLOSS began as an experiment in sheer volume. A husband-and-wife duo—American drummer/vocalist Karen Skloss (Moving Panoramas) and Scottish guitarist/vocalist Sandy Carson (Iglomat)—they formed in Austin, Texas, during the COVID lockdown, surrounded by amps, isolation, and the primal need to play loud.
The world outside was unraveling, so they turned the dial up to seismic levels and let the noise guide them. “Living next to the woods has something to do with it,” says Skloss. “Music became an outlet, like it did for so many at the time, except our outlet involved distortion pedals cranked past their limits.”
After their self-released debut EP Voices Travel Through This (2022), SKLOSS took their sound to the stage alongside acts like Divide & Dissolve, Messa, The Well, Glorium, and Oryx, culminating in a thunderous performance at the 2022 Levitation Festival.
Their immersive audio-visual collaboration Aether—a hypnotic ritual with renowned artist Thomas Hooper (whose artwork graces The Pattern Speaks)—unfolded in a concrete culvert at Colab Projects before traveling to the Iconic Echo Bridge in San Antonio and the James Turrell Skyspace at UT Austin.
Outside of SKLOSS, their creative worlds extend into film, photography, and radical storytelling. Skloss, a filmmaker with work featured on Barack Obama’s pick list, has edited seminal documentaries on Syd Barrett and Townes Van Zandt, while Carson is a former BMX pro turned acclaimed photographer and cinematographer.
Together, they are architects of something massive—music that pulls you in, breaks you apart, and leaves your atoms humming long after the last note fades.
And now, with “Imagine 100 Dads,” SKLOSS invites you into the void once more. Buckle up. It gets loud in there.
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