The Controversial New 'Skinny Pill'

The Controversial New 'Skinny Pill' is a band in Minneapolis, that does non-drowsy, hypnagogic, psychedelic social pop. Utilizing lo-fi straight-to-tape recording strategies, band lead Skyler Nowinski (Rupert Angeleyes, Loud Sun, Joey Joey Michaels) creates warm and woozy, wah-wah drenched, relentlessly rhythmic party songs and weirdo pop grooves joined by Mariel Olivera (XOXOTech, IE) on synths, Dan Dukich (Daniel Bonespur) on bass, Alana Horton (Alone-A, Tony Peachka, Bella Yaga) on drums, and Sergio Hernandez (Phantom Tails) on auxiliary percussion.

Since their 2019 release, Pencils Down!, the band returns, like most creative endeavors in this country, after nearly a year of cancelled gigs, soul searching, and rearranged priorities, with some new music and their first ever music videos to match. The new songs offer a more developed expression of the band's signature lo-fi mixture of restless guitar, jerky bass, squirrelly synths, and tumbling rhythms, all recorded at home, (this time on an early Y2K digital 12 track from a pawn shop) all to hopefully bring a bit of amusement to YOU, without being too corny or naive in one direction, or too fatalistic and didactic in the other direction.