PENSACOLA, the latest EP from Anishininaabe-fronted band Ribbon Skirt, is a moment suspended between reckoning and release. Framed as an epilogue to their critically acclaimed debut Bite Down, it captures the emotional residue left in the album’s wake - the lingering heat, the unsaid, the still-burning edge.
Shaped by memory and motion, PENSACOLA weaves shoegaze textures, piercing vocal hooks, and blown-out production with stripped-back flashes of quiet intensity. Tracks like “LUCKY8” and “COMMA,” pulse with urgency and emotional sleight of hand, while “BRAIDS” and the title track lean into something more fragile, haunted by questions of survival, family ties, and spiritual reckoning. With just four tracks, Ribbon Skirt closes one chapter while offering a glimpse of the evolution still ahead.
RIYL: Wednesday, Dry Cleaning, bar italia, Chanel Beads, PJ Harvey, Dehd, Wet Leg