October 4, 2024 shows the Dutch release of the long awaited vinyl album AS WE SPEAK by Dream Skills & G.W. Sok.

Over the course of ten tracks, recorded in varied environs around the world, the duo traverse an austere but evocative electronic landscape, where carefully chosen words and a uniquely deliberate delivery guide the way. Sok's singular presence, honed over many decades of cutting through dins in various forms, steadies the turbulent course. Dream Skills' rhythmic, pulsating foundation defies the DIY, punk origins of its creator, filling the speakers with lush arrangements not typically found in the restrictive realm of modular synthesis.

"As We Speak" boldly marries new operating procedures and instrumentation with time-tested creative approaches, resulting in an album of adventurous exercises in language and composition. A studied, confident warmth challenging a cold, uncertain future.

Dutch singer G.W. Sok is best known for his 30 year career fronting post-punk legends The Ex, as well as extensive solo and collaborative work in theatre, music, and spoken word since leaving that group in late 2008.

Dream Skills is the alias of electronic musician Donald Grant McLean, a UK native living in Queens, NY who has recorded and performed as a member of NYC post-industrial unit Final Boss, the international, experimental OMA collective, and English noise rock ensemble Action Beat.

Recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio, Chicago, USA, and by Bianca Bibiloni at Devon Analogue Studios, Devonshire, UK

Additional recording by Dream Skills and Armando Morales in Brooklyn and Queens, NY, USA
Vocals recorded by G.W. Sok at Galeri 42, on The Isle of Ven, Sweden.

All tracks mixed by Seth Manchester at Machines With Magnets, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
Mastering by Stefan Betke at Scape Mastering, Berlin, Germany

Track-listing

A1. An idea
A2. Stitches in time
A3. Rufus
A4. Vampires

B1. Last message
B2. Sow bugs
B3. The magic (gone)
B4. Habitat
B5. Of snakes and trees
B6. As we speak

All tracks written, performed, and edited by Dream Skills, G.W. Sok, Armando Morales, Bianca Bibiloni, Annie Simeone, & Isla McLean
Artwork by Phil Carney • Design and layout by Lewis McLean • Thanks to James Carney

Released by Sleeping Giant Glossolalia, New York (cat.no. SGG-094), distributed by Konkurrent, Amsterdam