Brooklyn NY’s Tiny Masters Of Today have set the release date for their second album ‘Skeletons’ for the 15th June on Mute. To celebrate the release of the follow up to 2007’s ‘Bang Bang Boom Cake’, the band are giving away a free download of title track and recent single ‘Skeletons’.
Almost overnight, the band went from a few homemade recordings on a MySpace page to collaborating with Karen O and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kimya Dawson, Fred Schneider (B-52s) and Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers), being remixed by CSS and Liars, and touring the world. David Bowie even lauded their first homemade single as "Genius." Not bad for a band that double as full-time students in the NY school system
With new album ‘Skeletons’, the Tiny Masters went it totally alone, producing and writing the entire record themselves. The tracks were largely recorded at their home in Brooklyn, using the computer program Garageband. They brought the songs to Seaside Lounge studio with engineer Patrick McCarthy for additional recording and Matt Stein at U.W.M.S.C. in New York mixed the final product.
Fans of the familiar shouting and sloganeering and general anti-establishment nose thumbing won’t be disappointed by the new album but the sonic palette has broadened somewhat. While their rag-tag sound is clearly informed by classic-era punk rock, they think nothing of incorporating hip-hop, electronica, dub, and even disco into a messy and uproarious concoction. The end result is frantic and funny, equally poignant and pugnacious. Politically charged and strikingly original, a curious pastiche of styles and subjects all channelled through their own, very unique, filter.
Here is the ‘Skeletons’ video directed by Jason Oliver Goodman (creator of the opening credits to TV’s ‘Mad Men’):
Almost overnight, the band went from a few homemade recordings on a MySpace page to collaborating with Karen O and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kimya Dawson, Fred Schneider (B-52s) and Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers), being remixed by CSS and Liars, and touring the world. David Bowie even lauded their first homemade single as "Genius." Not bad for a band that double as full-time students in the NY school system
With new album ‘Skeletons’, the Tiny Masters went it totally alone, producing and writing the entire record themselves. The tracks were largely recorded at their home in Brooklyn, using the computer program Garageband. They brought the songs to Seaside Lounge studio with engineer Patrick McCarthy for additional recording and Matt Stein at U.W.M.S.C. in New York mixed the final product.
Fans of the familiar shouting and sloganeering and general anti-establishment nose thumbing won’t be disappointed by the new album but the sonic palette has broadened somewhat. While their rag-tag sound is clearly informed by classic-era punk rock, they think nothing of incorporating hip-hop, electronica, dub, and even disco into a messy and uproarious concoction. The end result is frantic and funny, equally poignant and pugnacious. Politically charged and strikingly original, a curious pastiche of styles and subjects all channelled through their own, very unique, filter.
Here is the ‘Skeletons’ video directed by Jason Oliver Goodman (creator of the opening credits to TV’s ‘Mad Men’):
"…their songs are like Sesame Street being brought to you by the letters D, E, V, and O and with Kim Gordon playing Cookie Monster."—NME
Click to download ‘Skeletons’ here:
Skeletons
Click to download ‘Skeletons’ here:
Skeletons
