With Skeletons, the Tiny Masters of Today (consisting of 13 & 15 yr-old sibling duo Ivan & Ada) went it totally alone, producing & writing the entire album themselves. The tracks were largely recorded at their home in Brooklyn, using Apple’s Garageband. They brought the songs to Seaside Lounge studio with engineer Patrick McCarthy for additional recording and the final product was mixed by Matt Stein at U.W.M.S.C. in New York. Skeletons was released yesterday via Mute Records.

Fans of the familiar shouting & sloganeering & 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, & even disco into a messy & uproarious concoction. The end result is frantic & funny, equally poignant & pugnacious. Politically charged & strikingly original, a curious pastiche of styles and subjects all channeled through their own, very unique, filter.

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