Dream Skills & G.w. Sok
As We Speak
'As We Speak' is a collaborative release between G.W. Sock, who is best known as the original frontman of Dutch post-punk legends The Ex, and Dream Skills (a.k.a. electronic musician Donald Grant McLean, a UK native living in Queens, NY). Over the course of 10 tracks, the duo traverses 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 Skill's 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.