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No Age too brutalist for you? Here's a heedlessly beautiful alternative.
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Skeleton's flaws are few and often obscured by the album's mixing: Vidal's vocal adds an additional rhythmic layer, but his lyrical work is interesting enough to be more pronounced and less muddied.
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Mostly, Skeleton is jagged and weird....But if you can take the knocks, the band is at its finest when embracing discordance.
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MojoA more charming and seductive album you're unlikely to hear this year. [Nov 2008, p.116]
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UncutSkeleton romps along at a joyful gait peppered with breathless harmonies and squalls of noise and subverts some familiar tools along the way. [Nov 2008, p.87]
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Skeleton is one of the more interesting releases of the summer, and proves that Abe Vigoda are more than worthy of joining their peers in the spotlight.
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With a record possessing such an untamed imagination it’s fair to say that Abe Vigoda’s maddened prattle is a talent worth nurturing, whether soil in their teeth or blood on their knees.
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This is what jamming econo means to kids whose horizon isn't classic rock and hardcore, but grunge and post-hardcore. It sounds really good.
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They create a mood and atmosphere that's certainly unique, but one in which very few songs stand out, despite some fine moments.
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Brevity is the buzzword throughout Skeleton. No track goes over four minutes, and five don’t even hit two minutes. But brilliance emerges within those constraints.
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Skeleton's only real weak spot: moments of genuinely inventive instrumentation and musical ambition are in abundance here, but somehow the songs feel less than the sum of their parts.
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Cleverly and neatly interwoven to further the sense of disorientation, Skeleton is a concentrated blast of strangely accessible noise that is both bracing and energising.
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ByronJDec 4, 2009Suddenly naming your band after a well-known actor, is better than anything you could come-up with yourself?