Tiny Masters of Today
Skeletons (Mute)
THE key emotion felt when listening to Skeletons – Tiny Masters of Today’s second album – is jealousy.
Oh to have been this cool at 13 or 15 – the ages of band members Ada and Ivan – and already have such a strong understanding of how to make a damn catchy tune like.
Because from opener ‘Drop the Bomb’ to the pithy ‘Abercrombie Zombies’, the young siblings from Brooklyn have created a fun, fuzzy, all-round good album.
Recent single ‘Pop Chart’ showed the pair’s disdain for the type of hit machine which churns out chart fodder for their contemporaries to conquer the mighty Billboard. This is clearly not Tiny Masters goal; but despite that, they show a nous throughout the album for creating their own version of the perfectly punchy two-and-a-half minute single.
‘Drop the Bomb’ is guitar thrumming heaven, basic beats with the same fuzzy chord repeated throughout, destined to fill up dance floors while punky chords and fast beats in the likes of the title track pull the rest of the album through in a short and sweet 26 mins. The most exciting thing is not that they’ve accomplished this despite their age – it’s that they have so many more years ahead to release fun, clever tunes like these. Look forward to many happy returns.
Elaine Liddle
