{"id":160,"date":"2011-09-20T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/20\/skullflower\/"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:40:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T17:40:45","slug":"skullflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/20\/skullflower\/","title":{"rendered":"Skullflower &#8211;  Ruins (1990)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ruins.jpeg\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Led by guitarist Matthew Bower, the highly prolific Skullflower boasted the largest cult following of the bunch, with a sound based on sludgy, Black Sabbath-style riffs overlaid with feedback, fuzzed-out guitar noise, and throttling rhythms, all played at an ungodly volume. Always an improvisational outfit, their textured noise freak-outs grew increasingly free-form over the course of their career, moving farther and farther away from even loose definitions of &#8220;rock.&#8221; Skullflower claimed a broad range of influences in addition to the aforementioned Sabbath: heavy psychedelia (Blue Cheer, et al.), Krautrock, classical avant-gardists (John Cage, Steve Reich, Terry Riley), early industrial music (Throbbing Gristle, Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten, Whitehouse), and noise rockers from the American indie world (Sonic Youth, Big Black, the Butthole Surfers).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skullflower.bandcamp.com\/\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Led by guitarist Matthew Bower, the highly prolific Skullflower boasted the largest cult following of the bunch, with a sound based on sludgy, Black Sabbath-style riffs overlaid with feedback, fuzzed-out guitar noise, and throttling rhythms, all played at an ungodly volume. Always an improvisational outfit, their textured noise freak-outs grew increasingly free-form over the course&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/20\/skullflower\/\" title=\"Continue reading &lsquo;Skullflower &#8211;  Ruins (1990)&rsquo;\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673,579,4,308,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-673","category-noise-rock","category-psychedelic-rock","category-skullflower","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3758,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/3758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyjam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}