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Git

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One thing Skeletons & the Girl-Faced Boys isn't: Boring.

In fact, you can think of a thousand words to describe the debut "Git" -- mad alien electronic festival choirboys comes to mind -- and "boring" will be the last on that list. Basically they sound like the dancier, catchier version of the Animal Collective, plus some smooth vocals.

It starts off with rattly bells, sweeps of shivery synth, and what sounds like a circus UFO passing overhead. Then "See the Way" kicks in with some weird, high pitched vocals that sound like a boys' choir on acid.

One guy occasionally sings out on his own, with oddball lyrics like, "I... always... forget... what she looks like/her voice is... her voice is always changing..." as cowbells and zigzaggy, colourful synth continue to play. It's a wild, dancey little tune that never takes itself seriously.

It doesn't get any more seriously in the electro-flavoured "Git," apparently named for the self-absorbed narrator ("Girl, if you leave/don't wake me up/I got a lot of things to do..."), and the sparkling swirling "There Are Seagulls Who Live In Parking Lots." It's crammed with experimental flourishes and quirks.

But they do take an experimental bender with the mid-length experimental track "There's A Fly In Your Soup And I Put It There," which is basically one long undulating loop of crooning and squeaking. Heck, the final song sounds like a protracted spaceship takeoff, complete with electronic sputters and the sound of liftoff.

"Git" is one of those colourful, enthusiastic little albums that embraces about half a dozen musical genres at once, with little shreds of hip-hop, dance, punk, house, indiepop and experimental stuff. The Skeletons just jumble this all together, over a tight dance rhythm.

A few of the early songs are a bit more simplistic than the rest of the album -- "Git" is pretty quirkless, with just a straightforward electro sound. But in other songs, we get flutes, keyboard, tribal drumming, bells, flashes of synth, ripples of mellotron and weird moans and "oooo" noises in high, androgynous vocals that sing half the time, and make wacky "mouth music" the rest of the time.

Like a dancier, more electronic brother of Animal Collective, the Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys turn out some experimental, expansive "Git." Great fun.

skeletons & the girl-faced boys used to just be called skeletons, and under that name the main guy released a few records before this one on a label called shinkoyo..git is the first record he's done for mostly-electronic label ghostly, and shows a huge step forward in complexity while still being really listenable and even catchy.

ive read some reviews that seem to be really confused about where this record is coming from (comparisons to animal collective AND boyz 2 men?), but really it just takes a few listens to sink in, since every second is packed with tons of detail. git will definitely be appreciated by fans of can, max tundra, talking heads, and the soul jazz label, among others..check it out.

Deconstructivist! you can hear michael Jackson, sea and cake, parliment, and

sometimes party of helicopters (vocally only) blended into who knows what.

this record is great!

one complaint...not long enough. I just want it to keep going and going...

also check out the other skeleton stuff!