Artist: SKELETON HANDS
Download: Skeleton Hands is a self-described dark-wave duo from Cincinnati, Ohio — and they make music to make the bones dance and rattle. Their two-track EP, Crystalline Dreams , features foreboding and sorrowful vocals with an upbeat 80s-synth aesthetic. The album opener, “City Lights”, begins with a jumping beat and skittering synth — like goth-goes-dancing. It’s atmosphere is colorful and stylishly romantic. The band consists of singer Lazar-Bat (aka Evan Scott) who also works the bass, synth, beats, and programming. The group also includes Astro-Wolf (aka Chase Anderson) on guitar and programming. – David D. Robbins Jr. |
As the moon shown down into the deep, cavernous landscape so did Skeleton Hands when two pioneers of the outer reaches came together to conquer the dark and the light. Skeleton Hands is comprised of only two, Lazer Bat, master of rhythm, atmosphere and words, and Astro Wolf, an axe-wielding, melodic beast of prey who gets his powers from the moon. However, together they concoct a sound reminiscent of both the pioneers of electronic music as well as the post-punk movement all with a joyful darkness that rumbles the floor and circles the atmosphere. Elsewhere on the web: |