- Skeletons (band)
Infobox musical artist 2
Name = Skeletons
Background = group_or_band
Origin =Oberlin, Ohio
Genre =Experimental music
Years_active =2002 –present
Label = Shinkoyo
Ghostly International
Tomlab
URL = [http://www.skeletons.tv Official Site]
Current_members = Matthew Mehlan
Jason McMahon
Tony Lowe Jonathan Leland
Past_members = Carson Garhart
Cyrus Pireh
Severiano Martinez
Justin Craun
Mike Ames
Sam Kulik
Johnny MisheffSkeletons (also known as Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys and Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities) are an American entertainment unit from Ohio. They currently live in New York City.
Skeletons began as the solo project of Chicago native musician and filmmaker Matt Mehlan in 2001. In 2003, Mehlan released the albums "Life and the Afterbirth" and "I’m At the Top of the World" on Shinkoyo, an Oberlin, Ohio based music collective known for its focus on group improvisation and DIY ethics. Following the name change from Skeletons to Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys and the addition of a rotating cast of collaborators, the full-length "Git" was released on Ghostly International Records in June 2005. In 2007, Skeletons released the album "Lucas", also on Ghostly, under the name Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities. The album was recorded in the band's converted Queens warehouse studio and home, The Silent Barn.
"Lucas" was described by Pitchfork as "an outsize global-a-go-go mélange of unceasing polyrhythms, Afrobeat guitars, free jazz, and Timbaland's approach to kitchen-sink percussion." [cite news|last=Harvey|first=Eric|url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/44173-lucas|title=Lucas(review)|publisher="
Pitchfork Media "|date=July 18 ,2007 Last accessedJuly 18 ,2007 .]A new full-length entitled "Money" was announced for October, 2008 release on
Tomlab .Discography
* "Life and the Afterbirth", Shinkoyo,
2003
* "I'm At The Top Of The World", Shinkoyo,2004
* "Git",Ghostly International ,2005
* "Lucas",Ghostly International ,2007
* "Deity of Hair", free release on skeletons.tv,2007
* "MONEY",Tomlab ,2008 External links
* [http://www.shinkoyo.com Shinyoko Collective website]
* [http://www.tomlab.com/front/index.php?action=release_detail&release_id=221&release_strike=538&artist_id=99&PHPSESSID=c07112f458187cc072ed3132947418a8 Tomlab page]
* [http://www.ghostly.com/1.0/artists/skeletons/presspopup/Skeletons_Papermag.html Paper Magazine Article]
* [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/44173-lucas Pitchfork Review of "Lucas"]
* [http://www.dustedmagazine.com/features/333 Profile of Skeletons on Dusted magazine, written by Alexander Provan]References
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