Tuesday's Recommended Release

When scenes emerge in certain geographical locations it's pretty easy for every guitar owning nerd within the area to start a band sounding exactly like the band that just made it big. It happens to pretty much every scene, Seattle, New York, heck even Philadelphia and Baltimore are already cranking out more sound-a-likes then they know what to do with, but somehow the bands that make up the L.A. noise punk scene are experimenting with different styles and genres and are still all being lumped together. Does Health really sound anything like No Age? Are Mika Miko and Lavender Diamond twins? Hell no, these bands sound nothing alike, yet they are all part of this scene. So it's not surprising that a band with the varied tastes of Abe Vigoda is also making some headway in this still blooming scene. With a sound that has elements of tropical music, punk, noise rock, Afro-beat, and many more intricate pieces, you wouldn't think it would fit into something that also bred the bands mentioned above, but thanks to the ferocious speed found on the album it fits better then anyone could imagine.

Two years ago the band released their first full length album, but honestly few people were paying attention to the L.A. scene then, opting for areas like Montreal and New York instead. So it's taken the band a little time to reach the levels of some of their local peers, but with their second full length Skeleton it's will only be a matter of time before they are introducing their brand new video to Pete Wentz on MTV. Like a lot of their L.A. brethren, Abe Vigoda opt for a pretty lo-fi style of recording. Everything seems to be on top of each other throughout the entire 30-minutes of the album, but it works with the pieces each bouncing off of each other to create a vibrant, fast paced whole. Listening to this album is like being stuck in a whirlwind, except that it's the frenzied pace of the vastly different styles being thrust into your ears that makes it so insane and almost disorienting.

This is one of those albums that is just too damn short for it's own good. Each time I put it on I feel like it all rushes past me in a second and I want to keep putting it on reverse to hear the bits I may have just missed. That's a good album, the one that makes you come back to it time and time again, and keeps revealing more and more of itself with each successive listen. Skeleton is that in a nutshell. Make sure you catch up with these boys today!
Abe Vigoda - "Whatever Forever"
Abe Vigoda - "The Garden"
Abe Vigoda - "Skeleton"

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