The Sky Drops
12/15/11 Christmas Feels Like Halloween - FREE DOWNLOAD (right click)
Happy Holidays from The Sky Drops!
9/7/11 - Lots of new PRESS including - Inteview for Creative Loafing
Interview with DigIndie and Fuzzy Logic Interview
Check out our "q and also a" on GIMME TINNITUS - an awesome MP3 blog
6/21/11 - The new EP Making Mountains is NOW AVAILABLE on Blue Marbled VINYL and CD from Custom Made Music!
Buy it now - Custom Made Music
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To celebrate 2011's summer solstice, we are releasing our new EP Making Mountains.
As an extra bonus for checking it out, we are giving away our full length album Bourgeois Beat for FREE for a limited time.
Listen to and buy Making Mountains
and free download of Bourgeois Beat
@
theskydrops.bandcamp.com
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Big Takeover Review: "Dynamic and enchanting, Delaware’s The Sky Drops fashion a sweet tapestry of garage, psychedelics, and shoegaze. I’m talking the real stuff here, the good stuff. The swervedriving lush swirls of heavy noise. But the shadows are only there to keep the songs grounded, because melodies fly high and rhythms push up against the harmonizing vocals until all is full of sound. These songs from Rob Montejo, ex of Smashing Orange, and Monika Bullette are almost instant classics, but timeless. This music is now, pulsating between ethereal glory and desert rock. Sometimes catching like a collision between Loop and the seasick swagger of My Bloody Valentine. This EP, which is only disappointing because it’s too short, ends with the slow paisley dream of “Together-ing”, and I’m left feeling complete, but wanting more."
The Sky Drops expand their brand of shoegaze rock with their third release, Making Mountains. The first track, “Explain It To Me,” is an infectious romp in slithering fuzz, a la 60s Stones high on MBV. “Cut That Corner” and the hypnotic swagger of “Keeper” bring The Sky Drops’ trademark harmonies, explosive guitars and atmospherics to a Queens of the Stone Age sensibility. The fuzz subsides, and a swell of Loveless era guitars drives the catchy Latin sway of “Out The Window.” The last track is the unsettling acoustic beauty “Together-ing.”
Tracklisting:
explain it to me - listen here: http://soundcloud.com/theskydrops/explain-it-to-me
cut that corner
keeper
out the window
together-ing
A beautiful 12" with a Shoreline Gold silk-screened hand-numbered limited edition cover was limited to 100 copies. THEY ARE SOLD OUT.
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We are a part of Rock Back for Japan Vol. 5!
The Sky Drops made MAGNET a mix tape - check it out!
Air Atlantic Underground article
NWShoegazing Compilation and article
We performed at the Austin Psych Fest 4 at Seaholm Power Plant at 6pm on Friday, April 29th. Hope you caught this show or any of the others on our 2 week tour.
Great News - The Sky Drops have been invited to join Austin Psych Fest 4 - sharing the stage with Roky Erickson, Spectrum, The Black Angels, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Atlas Sound, Dead Meadow, Prefuse 73, Crystal Stilts, Sleepy Sun, Indian Jewelry, and many more!
The Sky Drops have been invited to join Deep Heaven Now 3 - Ambient/Psych Rock Festival 4/15-4/16. - Continuing the bi/semi-annual tradition of the original Deep Heaven ambient/psych festivals of the 90s in Boston, Deep Heaven Now! features the very best of the East Coast, Mid-West & West Coast Ambient/Experimental/Psychedelic Rock scene.
When the Sun hits have profiled Custom Made Music - the fine people who will be releasing our new EP "Making Mountains" this Spring.
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The Sky Drops are happy to announce their holiday single "Christmas Feels Like Halloween" is now officially available for purchase! This dark little darling first appeared for a limited time only last December as a secret download. |
Unlike previous offerings, Rob and Monika conjure their unique wide sound using acoustic guitar and vocals to bewitching effect.
Christmas feels like Halloween by The Sky Drops
"Christmas Feels Like Halloween" available at iTunes or Amazon now!
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In anticipation of their forthcoming EP, shoegaze rock duo The Sky Drops announces their new psych inspired single, “Explain It To Me". With something of an air of BRMC meets 60s Stones, “Explain It To Me” is a caustic romp in slithering fuzz pop. |
Recorded in November of this year, the drums were tracked in Monika’s living room. Everything else was recorded and mixed in the old garden shed Rob calls “the studio".
Explain it to Me by The Sky Drops
Buy it on iTunes or Amazon (coming soon to other digital stores)
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NEW - Interview: Rob Montejo of The Sky Drops and Smashing Orange on When the Sun Hits
NEW - Rob performed a cover of "So Much To Lose" for My Dad is Dead's Mark Edwards' 50th Birthday Bash while we were on tour in Cincinnati - check out the video
Just finished up our 2010 Midwest Tour - thanks to everyone who made it possible!
Thank you Helen Leicht - We are WXPN's Pick of the Day
The Sky Drops are gaze-grunge duo Rob Montejo and Monika Bullette. This Delaware twosome unearths an ocean-size of sound -- a superforce of guitar, drums and vocals.
Introducing the one-take "Swimming with Fishes" video -
Introducing the furry and feathered "Long Way" video -
Philadelphia City Paper article on The Sky Drops - 1/07/10
WXPN made The Sky Drops Philly Local Pick 10/29/09! "Wilmington natives, The Sky Drops with their psychedelic rhythm and indie lyrics. Rob and Monika have a new White Stripes meets the Pixies meets Elliott Smith-like vibe." - http://wxpn.blogspot.com/
Introducing the "Stone White" video to celebrate the Spoilt Victorian Child UK release - Children behaving badly...
View large version on Youtube here
Bourgeois Beat
Track listing:
1. Heavy Penny
2. Swimming with Fishes
3. Long Way
4. Stone White
5. Hang On
6. Truth Is
7. Sleepless
8. Sentimental
9. Throw Your Weight
10. Bourgeois Beat
US Release - 11 August 2009 - - Purchase CD here
Digital Release - 11 August 2009 - Purchase digital files from iTunes, Amazon, Amie Street, Napster, lala, etc.
"Clouds of People" EP
The Sky Drops 5 song debut ep “Clouds of People”
1. You Don’t Crawl
2. Now Would Be
3. Green to Red
4. The Go Go Go
5. Hang On
Buy the EP here - not many left!
or buy on iTunes, Amazon, or your other favorite digital music store
