Skeleton

Los Angeles tropical art punks Abe Vigoda have taken their lite Afro/world beat forays a few steps further with the breezy, immersive SKELETON. Like their friends in No Age, Abe Vigoda use fuzzy atmospherics to create a lazy, expansive feeling, much like dozing off after a long day of swimming and sun on vacation. Ethnic percussion and echoey, atmospheric guitars that chime like steel drums propel "Animal Ghosts," while the title track's urgent tempos and chanting cadences heat the blood through a haze of smoke. It all adds up to a heady new kind of urban tribal dance.