Skeppet Deluxe by Skeppet

Multi-instrumentalists Andreas Malm and Henrik Wallin have been triangulating a particular schematic of mantric-psychedelic instrumental music since the mid-2000s, emphasizing texture, time, and trance states. But with the exception of 2014’s Phase 3 LP most of the group’s recordings were released as limited cassettes or vinyl in Sweden, long out of print.

Skeppet Deluxe collects an assortment of these tracks into an hour-long mystic suite of primitivist circular sprawl. Shaping guitar, synthesizer, and percussion within fractals of FX, their ethos of Doing Less, Longer ventures across varied terrain: motorik reverie, sunbleached organ, drum rumble,, wah dirge, dawnbringer pop, and beyond. Songs span five to fifteen minutes; depth of repetition determines duration. As a discographical cross-section, Skeppet Deluxe embodies their formative headspace of rustic cosmic roads and vanishing horizon lines.