Monday, January 27, 2014

Skeleton Key - Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon

Skeleton Key is a band I never tire of. The thing they do has been enormously influential on me, and their first full-length, Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon, is an album by which I measure all others. Unfortunately, I believe they were dropped by their label after this record and a couple of key members subsequently left the band. Since then they've floated around a bit, picking up new players and making records sporadically, including the excellent Obtainium for Mike Patton's Ipecac label, and the more recent, and more excellenter, Gravity Is The Enemy for Arctic Rodeo.  Recently the band themselves were kind enough to upload the entirety of Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon to their youtube channel in high quality, being that it's been out of print and difficult to obtain(ium?) for some time. I've still got my original CD copy, but its 1's and 0's are getting a bit frayed around the edges, so this is good news. A vinyl reissue would be even gooder news, but until then...


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