Abe Vigoda: Skeleton
Label: PPM
This was a great year for psych, and this knockout LP from Abe Vigoda was one of the genre’s finest offerings. The 14 songs on Skeleton stop and start at a moment’s notice, driven by a bass that effectively pulses and an oddly pitched guitar sound, equally hollow and wide. “Cranes” and “Live-Long” are headlong crowd-pleasers, not pop songs so much as motion-friendly rave-ups that someone’s bound to invent a dance for before long. Moreso than their debut, Skeleton showcases Abe Vigoda’s particular talent: taking the noisy energy of punk rock and shifting it into something airy, something that moves along with an effortless momentum. (Toby)
