One of the most fascinating bands from the hugely creative Brooklyn/NYC scene of recent times, Skeletons create intense, original and revelatory music, working a globe-spanning realm of inspirations into a singular and colourful vision of guitar-based songcraft.

Led by Matt Mehlan and his long-term collaborators Jason McMahon and Jonathan Leland, Skeletons have spent the last few years touring their potent live show all around, releasing a string of bold, beautifully recorded albums in the process.

“People”, their new album, co-mixed by Rusty Santos (also known for his work with Owen Pallett and Animal Collective/Panda Bear) is the first released in exciting union with Crammed Discs. It brilliantly boils down all the band’s thrilling sonic excursions into a collection of concise, fluid and emotive songs: rich, subtly dramatic musical atmospheres envelope Matt Mehlan’s compelling lyrical tales, inhabited by unlikely real-life characters (Jimmy Damour, Tania Head, Lil’ Rich and others) whose stories are told from a viewpoint which is both human and social/political.

Even considering the number of talented, musically globetrotting guitar bands to have emerged from the US thus far this century, Skeletons have always stood out as ‘one of the few contemporary bands who can legitimately be called original’ (in the words of US magazine XLR8R).

Previous albums such as “Money” and “Lucas” saw Skeletons dabble in everything from Prince-indebted pop to free jazz freak-outs to percussion heavy afro-funk, angular art-rock, orchestral folk and "quiet storm" R&B. While many tracks of their earlier careered through styles and sections in a manner both playful and uncompromising (not to mention thrilling) ), the songs that populate “People” are pointed and meticulously arranged, and resist the urge to nod overtly to anything other than themselves