Seraphina Lotkhamnga on May 13th, 2011

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Although a few of his fellow band members may have left to form Signals, the Mae Shi’s Brad Breeck has been keeping busy and he hasn’t turned down the volume since the release of the ambitiously convulsive “HLLLYH.” Now performing and releasing new music under the moniker Skull Tape, Breeck is still a flowing fountain of punk aesthetics. Recruiting a few familiar faces such as Daniel DeBlanke (Robotanists), Vice Cooler (Hawnay Troof, Xbxrx), Kyle Mabson (Xbxrx) and Dalton Blanco, Skull Tape is a full band that taps into spaz-rock with melodies reminding us of the Mae Shi, but not necessarily pining for the past. They’ve perked a few ears up with their bloody cover of Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair,” but their debut album, “The Invisible Hand and the Descent of Man” (now out via LA’s Fine) will soon be jerking bodies around, or at least feeding fans’ need to smash something until they find a mosh pit to join. The Vice Cooler-directed video for “Crop Circles” is a testament in itself. Breeck and the crew have some fun shoving someone in a car trunk, looking like they just came out of “The Matrix” and, of course, partying.

||| Download: “Crop Circles”

||| Also: “Whip My Hair (Drowning In Blood)” (Willow Smith cover)