EXCUSES FOR SKIPPING

Excuses For Skipping returns with their third and most ambitious album to date, Escape From Earth.

Genres: space age psyche rock

The year is 1997. Tammy Fortin and Linda Moody head into a San Francisco garage with piano guts, drum sticks, a Boss RV-2 pedal and a Tascam 424 four track. They come out with a cassette tape and a dream.

Moody’s catchy vocal arrangements and pop sensibilities join forces with Fortin’s instinct for chaos and penchant for abstract guitar sounds to create melodic songs undeniably rich in both texture and meaning.

In 2007, Excuses For Skipping released their critically acclaimed full-length album, Out Of Work Early, produced by Tony Espinoza. The LA Music Awards nominated the song Gravity as “Best Single Of The Year.” In 2011, they released their second album, Tonic For Hysteria, that departs sonically from their debut, with a raw sound that is both powerful and vulnerable. It was ranked #1 in Deli Magazine’s “Year End Best Of SF” poll for emerging artists.

In 2012, lead guitarist Tammy Fortin moved to Michigan and the band went on hiatus. But as happens with great creative partnerships, Fortin was drawn back to the Bay Area, and an invitation from producer John Hopen to record at his studio seemed like fate intervening.  The result of this impromptu recording session, Escape from Earth, is a musical work so breathtaking in its scope as to travel all the way into space and back. Escape from Earth faces down the urgent question: is there actually something better out there? And whether yes or no, can that anxious uncertainty be channeled through music, in an attempt to find the answer? Escape From Earth, set to be released in 2020, is a rock opera for these 21st Century times, and strikes a particularly zeitgeisty note as a necessary conversation with the next generation.

Their live performance is powerful and unpredictable, complete with sheet metal banging, bike frame clanging and volcanic guitar explosions. Las Vegas Weekly nailed it by stating “Imagine if Kevin Shields produced the Go Go’s and you’ll have some idea of where this SF based quartet is coming from.”

Excuses for Skipping are: Linda Moody (vox, guitar, keys, percussion), Tammy Fortin (guitars, vox, keys), Tori Fulkerson-Jones (bass) and Robbie Ryan (drums)