Bizarre. No other word in the English language should be used to describe Dead Man's Bones. This group of miscreants make twisted tunes that feature children's choruses, ghosts, goblins, and the sound of zombies playing synthesizers on their quest for brains. You think I'm kidding don't you? Well, dear reader, I'm not, this is the sound of Nick Cave after he shuffles off his mortal coil and moves to the supernatural realm beyond Earth.
Haunting, eerie, and just plain strange, no other band on earth could make music like Dead Man's Bones and no other band could record an album like Dead Man's Bones.Adopting the simple philosophy of never letting a lack of talent get them down, DMB throw two sheet's to the wind and just do whatever they feel like and the results are barely explainable. Twisted, grotesque and barely listenable in all the best ways, this is most definitely and album you will scratch your head at. The songs don't make sense, the band don't make sense and when they almost tap into something approaching a pop tune it won't make sense either.
Dead Man's Bones is a curious album that's not anything you'll rush home to listen to repeatedly (unless you're really, really creepy) but it's not something you can turn away from easily either. It's a record (and a band) trapped in the netherworld of music. Somewhere between bizarrely good and bizarrely bad that's where DMB lie. Whether or not you like these guys will depend on your tolerance to listening to things that go bump in the night and rattle in your speakers. Crazy, cooky, scary stuff then.
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