(Happy) Album

Askeleton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 24, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Goodnight Records
• ASIN: B000BNKAII
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #924,530 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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About the Artist

Askeleton is a band born in the Twin Cities, MN. Askeleton has former and current members of obscure bands such as Kill Sadie, Hidden Chord, End Transmission, Vox Vermillion, Siren 6 and Ela. The present line-up of Askeleton is: Knol Tate (vocals, guitar), Jacy McIntosh (bass guitar, percussion, backing vocals), William Caperton (guitar, keys, percussion), Ellen Fitzgerald (keys, backing vocals) and Eric Vong (drum kit, keyboard, percussion). Everyone plays a bit of everything. Askeleton plays music, most people hate music.

In 2000 Askeleton was founded during the breakup of Knol's former bands Kill Sadie and The Hidden Chord. Using a free version of a digital audio program he wrote songs based on samples, simply arranged keyboard and guitar parts and left over Hidden Chord lyrics. During 2000 and 2001 Knol made two records released in 2002 as the "Sad Album" full length CD (Minneapolis label Blood of the Young Records) and a CD/EP called "Modern Fairy Tales" (New York’s Alone Records). A modest amount of favorable press and reviews followed both releases.

In order to promote these releases Knol assembled a band to play the songs live. Many different versions of the live band where formed and finally in 2003 the line up that is now known as Askeleton was in place, making it no longer a solo project. Askeleton is known to bring out the tension, experimentation and power of Wire, Eno era Talking Heads poppyness, quirk and grooves as well as the obscurity and anarchic art of early bay area punks like Dead Kennedys and Crime.

Getting right out on the road and booking tours with bands such as Seattle's Minus The Bear (Suicide Squeeze/ARRC), The Bay Area's The New Trust and Velvet Teen (Slow Dance records), Chicago's Che Arthur (of File 13's Atombombpocketknife) and many local shows with local and national bands like of Radio 4, Dosh, Mark Mallman, Kid Dakota, 12 Rods, One Am Radio, Har-Mar Super Star, Motion City Soundtrack, Ted Leo, The Soviettes, Detachment Kit, and countless others.

In 2004 Askeleton released the second full length album called Angry Album -or- Psychic Songs on Atlanta's Goodnight records.

Askeleton did that. We did lots of things. Now we are writing a new record. We call it Happy Album because "it must be important for Askeleton to keep its emotional levels palatable to first-graders." (Richard T. Williams - Pop Matters) I say it fits the motif. It should be out sometime in 2005.

The music Askeleton makes is deconstructionalist or simple. Some people call it pop music, some people call it punk, some people call it rock, some people call it new wave. Most people hate music. Askeleton is a band.