Skeletons & The Kings Of All Cities

Brooklyn’s top-monikered tropical pop lords, Skeletons & the Kings of All Cities – anteriorly Skeletons & the Girl-Faced Boys – have engendered comparisons to Can, Grandaddy, Sonic Youth, Prince – even the sans pareil Boyz II Men.

Initially spawned as a solo act – whose cornerstones were collaboration, experimentation and unpredictability – founder member (and Shinkoyo records chieftan) Matt Mehlan enlisted an eclectic cast of conspirators to gussy up his autonomous art: classical trombonists, punk-rock drummers and junkyard choirboys to name a few.

Now brandishing a full-time band, whose not inconsiderable number boasts horn-blowers, multiple guitarists and double drummers – and having recently issued an excellent debut, ‘Lucas’ on indie enterprise Ghostly (Dabrye, Matthew Dear) – Skeletons... have slayed audiences alongside the likes of TV on the Radio, Animal Collective and Jackie O’ Motherfucker. You have been warned.


Found

"Like King Creosote holed up in a studio with Brian Eno", raved Word magazine viz Edinburgh pop dissectors Found: a shimmering five-piece whose beach-combing romp across breaks, beats, acid-folk, hip-hop and electronica reflects Beck, Four Tet, The Beta Band.

The gilded abstraction of Ziggy Campbell (lead vocals, guitar), Tommy Perman (bass guitar, synths), Kev Sim (sampler, melodica), Gav Sutherland (keys, backing vocals) and Alan Stockdale (drums, percussion, live visual projection), Found arose in 2005, and have since approached pop as one might a laboratory: their amalgamated dance-folk, their twisting key signatures, their helter-skelter electronica and their meticulous, chromatic rock makes for a heavenly inquisition.

Recently signed to The Fence Collective, Found released their second album, 'This Mess We Keep Reshaping', to great acclaim last year.