Monday, November 11, 2019

The 1986 Listening Post - Skeleton Crew - The Country of Blinds

Skeleton Crew - The Country of Blinds


#109/1274
March 1986
Skeleton Crew
The Country of Blinds
Genre: Experimental
3.5 out of 5


Highlights:
The Border
Man or Monkey
You May Find a Bed


If you like The Residents you will like this album. I mean, it sounds just like them to the point that I had to wonder how they weren’t credited. 
Yes, Fred Frith did work with the eyeballs but this either points to the Venn diagram of him and them being a solid circle or they just were in such perfect sync that a collaboration would only make sense. 
The difference here being that they actually craft songs of a sort. Take “The Border”. It’s like 1979 Talking Heads produced The Residents. 


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