n the words of Benedic Lamdin: “Skeletons is a made up band. I kid you not - it doesn't exist. These musicians never stood in the studio together, they just passed through my house or left some scraps of sound behind after sessions we were working on… “Some of the music here started life as commissions for a library music company, pastiches and forgeries paid for by the current vogue for a certain style of African jazz. Once I'd done a few though I couldn't stop, it was my default preoccupation, something for me once I'd finished working on other people’s albums. It was relaxation, something that didn't matter whether it worked or not. The whole LP was made like that, done in the time between recording jobs.

The Skeletons track, “Positive Force”, which appears on this album, was given an early airing on ‘Impossible Ark: A Compilation’ in October, to immense acclaim and support from tastemakers including Ashley Beedle (X-Press 2/Ministry Of Sound Radio/RBMA), Gilles Peterson (BBC Radio 1), Craig Charles (BBC 6Music) and Snowboy; and excellent reviews from all corners, from i-DJ magazine through to Mercury Prize Recommends. Nostalgia 77’s other highly acclaimed releases include collaborations with Keith and Julie Tippett and Beth Rowley, and he has also previously won Gilles Peterson’s Jazz Album of the Year at the BBC Worldwide Awards.