Louder Than War’s Christopher Lloyd finds an intriguing mix of post punk and harmony driven indie pop from New York’s ‘Skorts’.
NYC is renowned for its myriad of cool bands over the years, along with plenty of hipster trial-by fire, burn outs. Late last year at the Viva Sounds festival in Sweden, Skorts appeared, seemingly from nowhere, to perform a set comprised of their debut album that effortlessly seeped the kind of cool that can only be achieved by producing unique music that feels familiar yet not quite samey, and exciting yet not forced. Looking damn cool helps too, which they absolutely did. Skorts pulled all this off effortlessly at that intense, yet short gig.
A four piece that play a dreamy mix of shoegaze meets Elastica with a stateside twist, Skorts is a band that deserves to be heard, and this summer, Skorts are heading to the UK for a tour backed on the release of new track ‘Headrush’, hopefully a taster of a new album to come, and you can catch them at the following venues:
June 30th – Shacklewell Arms, London
July 1st – Future Yard CIC, Birkenhead
July 2nd – Billy Bootleggers, Nottingham
July 3rd – Big Hands, Manchester
July 4th – The Brunswick, Brighton
You can pick up tickets here, and find out more about Skorts on their official website, Instagram and Bandcamp pages.
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All words by Christopher Lloyd. Skorts photographed by Nick Charnas. You can find more writing by Christopher at his author’s archive.
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