Live Skull Return With New Album “Party Zero”

Insurrections. Global pandemics. The return of fascism. Climate crises. These are some serious times. But if you’ve got angst in your pants and you need to dance, or scream, or play guitar too loud too close to your amplifier, turn your ear to what Live Skull are doing. Veteran New York noisers who went on indefinite hiatus just before their kind of smart, gnarly, inventive din became lucrative, they rose again in 2016 and their new full length, Party Zero, is now available via Bronson Recordings. The album is a thrilling work redefining what Live Skull means and what they stand for, no longer a group with a past, but one with a future. 

Party Zero is big in sound, brash in dynamics. But the sophistication that was always the group’s calling card remains an essential element, dealing in the kind of pulverising pell-mell that characterised the 80’s New York sound, but also radiant with melody, the fusion of noise and unexpected tunefulness delivering a heady, psychedelic effect. This is timely music, essential, impassioned, angry and beautiful. It’s the sound of Live Skull in the 21^st Century, a desperate time that needs heroes like these.