Skelethon

Hip-Hop · 2012 · 17 tracks · 1h 2m

Skelethon

A dense thicket of industrial-tinged beats and hyper-literate rhymes. Self-produced and claustrophobic, it captures the sound of a brilliant mind eating itself.

It's like a 1,000-piece puzzle where every piece is a different shade of grey and somehow it's a masterpiece.

A high-velocity panic attack channeled through a brilliant, hyper-literate filter.

Skelethon · vs · Aesop Rock

Layered Dense+1.8σ

The production is pushed notably harder into layered dense than this artist usually allows.

Tracklist · 17 Tracks · 1h 2m

01

Leisureforce

4:44

02

ZZZ Top

4:15

03

Cycles to Gehenna

4:01

04

Zero Dark Thirty

3:21

05

Fryerstarter

3:29

06

Ruby ’81

2:34

07

Crows 1

4:20

08

Crows 2

2:30

09

Racing Stripes

3:23

10

1,000 O’Clock

3:59

11

Homemade Mummy

2:46

12

Grace

3:39

13

Saturn Missiles

3:37

14

Tetra

4:41

15

Gopher Guts

3:58

16

Dokken Rules

4:00

17

BMX

3:35

Moments Worth Waiting For

The relentless, driving guitar riff on ZZZ Top that bridges the gap between hip-hop and garage rock.

The heart-stopping narrative tension of Ruby '81 as the ticking clock mimics a dog's intuition.

The brutal self-interrogation of the final verse on Gopher Guts where the wordplay falls away for raw honesty.

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