To celebrate the final week of NZ Music Month, Rolling Stone AU/NZ asked a selection of musicians to name their favourite Aotearoa artists and explain what makes them so unique.
So when the Auckland trio describe notorious industrial post-punk band The Skeptics as making music that’s “daring and strangely beautiful,” we’re inclined to believe them.
Below, Grecco Romank explain what makes The Skeptics’ music genuinely timeless:
Grecco Romank‘s true heritage belongs to the post punk industrial tradition of The Skeptics, who are unmatched pioneers.
It is exciting to listen to a New Zealand artist willing to explore and evoke the grim and gothic landscape of a former Queen’s colony.
The Skeptics left behind a timeless, daring and strangely beautiful core of work. Their uncanny body music exists in a liminal zone. They made meaty industrial dirges, music that shifts and remolds itself into sublime and soaring compositions. A good starting place is the haunting track “Agitator”.
