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Skeleton and the Kings of All Cities
Lucas
Ghostly Records
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written by Ged M
Apr 22, 2008.
A loosely connected story about a beauty obsessed king, a hairy boy, and a garden of eden located in Lucas, Kansas; a sound that mixes rock, Philadelphia soul, jazz and techno, and puts you in mind of Talking Heads, Liars and Deerhoof to name but three of three hundred possible influences; a feeling of being sober one minute and stoned the next; and a journey of outré sonic experimentation. They’re some of the notes I made listening to the overwhelming new album from Brooklyn’s Skeleton and The Kings of All Cities. It’s a record in flux, constantly switching from the cowbells and scratching of ‘Fake Tits’ to the skronky brass and jazzy sounds of elephants with earache (‘Hay Whappns?’) to the disco-funky ‘Sickness’ and its refrain: “ooh child, you’ve got a bad case of the big ideas”. It can be occasionally discordant and unsettling but musically it’s a brilliant production that allows so much to happen without becoming a blur of random sound. The best track is the least accessible; there’s a hidden song 14 minutes into ‘Push ‘im Out’ where waves of brass, keyboards and treated vocals ebb and flow across a constant percussive rumble and sum up the mash of global influences that ‘Lucas’ represents. If you’re tired of skinny jeaned indie pups with nothing to say and if ambition’s not a dirty word, Lucas is a refreshing if challenging alternative.
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