Skeltons

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There's something to be said for not knowing how to play your instruments. As brilliant as Wire's Pink Flag and the Slits' Cut were, both bands have since gone on to say that they really had no idea what they were doing on their debuts. Likewise, two years after Tiny Masters of Today's first record, 15-year-old Ivan and 13-year-old Ada maintain the adolescent simplicity that made their break-out so charming, but now they pair it up with some serious production, courtesy of...themselves? While Bang Bang Boom Cake amazed audiences with the notion that kids could make music that rivals the music of grown-up indie rockers, Skeletons ups the ante by proving that kids can produce, too. The perplexing part is that the production is so phenomenal that it outdoes the first album's production by seasoned veteran Russell Simins. Recorded with Garage Band software in their Brooklyn home (and touched up afterwards by studio professionals Patrick McCarthy and Matt Stein), the album is a kaleidoscopic hodge-podge of styles that mixes their cute-but-punky aesthetic with hip-hop beats, disco scratches, and even New Jack swing horn hits. It's this Grand Royal mish-mash style of mixing genres that makes this such a fun, cartoonish, joy ride. ~ Jason Lymangrover