| Skeletons And The Kings Of All Cities / Lucas |
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| Album: | Lucas | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Skeletons And The Kings Of All Cities | Added: | 08/2007 | |
| Label: | Ghostly International | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-10-21 | Pull Date: | 2007-12-23 |
| Week Ending: | 23 Dec | 18 Nov |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 21, 2007: | Memory Select What They Said | 2. | Nov 12, 2007: | I <3 Life and The Furious Doctor What They Said |
| Album Review |
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| Dick Benedict Reviewed 2007-10-14 | ||
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Collective-folk-jazz-art-pop. Another one of these huge collective groups that seems all the rage. Vocals are high pitched Xiu-xiu-y male vox, drowned out behind a very cluttered rhythm bed. Thick varied percussion and many layers of instrumentation. FCC unclean, but hard to hear. Picks 1,2,5,6,7. *1-5:02) Syncopated handclap stomp beat. Psychy high pitched male vox. Chorus joins in. Communal build. Almost African rock beat in the guitars. *2-3:34) Darker stomp, gamelan buried below? Vox harder to make out. FCC "fucking". Ends with intelligible "meaningful" couplet. 3-5:17) Immediate jazzy trombone animal calls. Settles into snakey, vaguely exotic beat. Last minute mostly instr. beat with skronks. Ends on quiet held horn note. 4-10:50) Mid/fast repetitive drum beat. 70s funk-jazzy horn line. Builds into muddy wall of sounds then slowly decresc. Last 15 sec. silence. *5-3:08) Opens nylon acoustic almost classical guitar. Very wet sounding waltz with violin, cello, drums, electronics. Ends soft. FCC "shit?" *6-3:40) Weird, dreamlike, like a exotic movie soundtrack played over a Tom Waits beat. FCC "cocks". Then switches into slide guitary "rock" beat. Ends with Tin Hat Trio-y sounds. *7-2:52) Weird take on 70s soul, with sick strings in the background. FCC "shit?". Ends in swirly wall of cacophony to held strings. 8-4:45) Soft, persistent electronicy 4 on the floor beat. FCC "shit". Eh. 9-19:36) Slow. Starts with chimes. Prominent acoustic nylon chords covering pained Xiu Xiu-esque vocals. At -16:50 serious emo-esque crash but with skronk instruments. -16:10 quiets down to brisk beat with skronks. -14:50 coffeehouse folk harmonies over soft nylon guitar. Slowly fades out to -13:00. Hidden track at -5:28. Electronic pads. Quirky tribal drum pounding. Hard to make out vox. Eh. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | What They Said | 5. | The Shit From The Dogs | |||
| 2. | Fake Tits | 6. | Like It Or Not | |||
| 3. | Hay Whappns? | 7. | Let It Out | |||
| 4. | Don't Worry | 8. | Sickness | |||
| 9. | Push Im Out | |||||