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ARTiST....: skeletons and the king of al..
TiTLE.....: lucas
LABEL.....: Ghostly International
GENRE.....: indie
SOURCE....: cdda
QUALiTY...: VBR / joint-stereo
SiZE......: 84,4 MB
REL.DATE..: 03-01-2007
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01] what they said 05:02
02] fake tits 03:34
03] hay w'happns? 05:17
04] don't worry 10:50
05] the skeleton from the dogs 03:13
06] like it or not 03:41
07] let it out 02:56
08] sickness 04:46
09] push 'im out 19:37
TOTAL TiME : 58:56 min
"LUCAS is named after a small town in Kansas,
where the Garden of Eden is. I started writing
words for the record when we were driving through
those huge states, thinking about these little
places off the interstate. Sometimes just a house
or two next to each other."
The album captures this dynamic wonderfully,
managing to sound as expansive as a continent,
while always leaving room in the production for
the tiniest sonic detail. Musically it's a
stunning step forward for Skeletons & The Kings of
All Cities - building on their reputation for
everything-but-the-kitchen-sink instrumentation
and uncommon arrangements - while expanding their
sound to more organic realms, with strings, horns,
and layer upon layer of percussion. A transition
from a bounding pop tune into a horn freakout into
an odd-tempo slice of baroque, string-led
mantra-folk has never sounded so smooth or
natural. And that's just the start - Mehlan goes
on to explain:
"There's a beauty-obsessed king whose broom sweeps
up all the leftover, unwanted people so he can fix
them with his kisses and touch, make them HIS kind
(and put holes in their bodies to squeeze God in).
LUCAS became the town, the light at the end, the
pot of gold, the emerald city AND the boy with
hair flowing to his ankles from all over his body.
He's one of those unwanted, and when the King
calls out for the cops to bring him a lock of hair
from all families' youngest children (to make a
sweater), his family sends him off on his journey
out of the city - to the Lucases, the Gardens of
Eden, the freer nowhere places. To protect and
save his hair personality, let him understand it,
to return when he can handle the city and its
intensities (people, memories, drugs), remove him
from his curtained teenage room to where he can be
beyond his hair. They give him a TV for comfort."
Whether or not you're able to pluck this narrative
from the album itself, LUCAS is an unprecedented
sonic journey that rides on a remarkable weaving
of composition and arrangement, marking both the
most ambitious and the most rewarding opus yet
from the prolific quintet. It's a record that
truly must be heard (in full) to be believed, and
one that won't be quickly forgotten once the
stylus returns to its cradle
Buy me if you love me :)