Skeletons - Money

Skeletons were born in Ohio, in the belly of a music school located in the state’s poorest county. After self-releasing three long-players on the Shinkoyo label, they refined their particular brand of pop music with the release of Git (Ghostly International, 2005) as Skeletons & the Girl Faced Boys.

Dispersing across the big country after each tour, the band was drawn one-by-one to New York City and eventually needed a new headquarters. They found an old empty sweatshop, built rooms, dangerously dabbled in electrical work, put in a washing machine and the now infamous "Silent Barn" was born. They hosted shows and recorded the acclaimed Lucas (Ghostly International, 2007) there, credited to Skeletons & the Kings of All Cities, and named after the town in Kansas where the Garden of Eden is.

After years of physical and psychological testing, touring as a trio, quintet, octet or more, which sometimes changed its name between songs on stage, the Skeletons band is now four: Jonathan Leland, Tony Lowe, Jason McMahon and Matt Mehlan.

Fresh off their first tour in the UK and Europe, Skeletons makes its way across the continents again in the coming months, hoping to spend as much Money on Gas as possible. Until then they continue to spearhead the People’s Movement for the Resuscitation of Music in New York, offering their recording services and co-curating the "Bee’s Nest" happenings at Zebulon with the band Zs and the experimental theatre group Dome Theatre, as well as events at Shinkoyo HQ Paris London West Nile and creating Skeletons Television internet television programming.

Tracklist:
01. Fill My Pockets Full 02. The THINGS 03. RIPPER a. k. a the Pillows 04. STEPPER a. k. a Work 05. Dripper 06. BOOOM! (Money) 07. Unrelentinglessness 08. The Masks 09. Lullaby 10. Eleven (IT’ll RAIN)

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