May 30, 2023 3:51PM

My Favourite New Zealand Artist: Grecco Romank on The Skeptics

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

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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.

Grecco Romank recently guided Rolling Stone AU/NZ through their excellent new album, Wet Exit, a record that possesses an almost indescribable sound.

“Grecco Romank’s new album is the sound of the rave you never want to end up at but the one you inevitably find yourself magnetically drawn into,” was our best sonic estimation.

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”.

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