User ratings in Music are temporarily disabled. More info
  • Record Label:
  • Release Date:
Skeleton Image
Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 12 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: The third album for the Los Angeles-area punk-rock band.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. No Age too brutalist for you? Here's a heedlessly beautiful alternative.
  2. Mostly, Skeleton is jagged and weird....But if you can take the knocks, the band is at its finest when embracing discordance.
  3. 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.
  4. They create a mood and atmosphere that's certainly unique, but one in which very few songs stand out, despite some fine moments.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.

See all 12 Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 1
  2. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. ByronJ
    Dec 4, 2009
    6
    Suddenly naming your band after a well-known actor, is better than anything you could come-up with yourself?

Awards & Rankings