Video Skeletons’ “BOOM (Money)”
posted by on October 15 at 16:02 PM
Skeletons are one of the finest bands of this decade, and their third album, Money (Tomlab; out Nov. 4), is the New York collective’s best yet. Check out the teaser video—shot in Olympia—for “BOOM (Money),” off said full-length, which is a serious contender for the top of my year-end list.
“BOOM (Money)” (zeitgeisty title) slithers mercurially among post-rock, jazz, and no-wave tropes, never settling predictably in any of them. I hear traces of such excellent sui generis extremists as Love Cry Want, This Heat, and Group Doueh. This is potent, exhilarating stuff.
According to allmusic.com this is the band's fifth release. And their description of the band's sound is nothing like what was penned in this post.
Are we possibly a-talking about different bands with the same name?
My bad on the number of albums; the first two were released in very limited editions, the next three on more prominent indie labels. The song I discuss is pretty different from previous material.