Track Listing 1. Dead City/Waste Wilderness 2. Bear Face 3. Lantern Lights 4. Whatever Forever 5. Animal Ghosts 6. Cranes 7. Live-Long 8. Garden, The 9. Hyacinth Grrls 10. World Heart 11. Gates 12. Visi Rings 13. Endless Sleeper 14. Skeleton
| Details | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Los Angeles tropical art punks Abe Vigoda have taken their lite Afro/world beat forays a few steps further with the breezy, immersive SKELETON. Like their friends in No Age, Abe Vigoda use fuzzy atmospherics to create a lazy, expansive feeling, much like dozing off after a long day of swimming and sun on vacation. Ethnic percussion and echoey, atmospheric guitars that chime like steel drums propel "Animal Ghosts," while the title track's urgent tempos and chanting cadences heat the blood through a haze of smoke. It all adds up to a heady new kind of urban tribal dance.
Editorial Reviews Ranked #39 in Mojo's The 50 Best Albums Of 2008 -- [B]alanced by AV's charm, charisma and gift for star-gazing melodies. Mojo
4 stars out of 5 -- SKELETON's bustling rhythms are threaded with highlife guitars, chiming out writhing, hypnotic melodies, cutting a joyous calypso. Mojo
[W]hen the group peaks, as on the note-perfect 'Cranes', they sound like they've discovered a new musical faultline -- one that courses through their music like excited blood through young veins. The Wire
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