NYC Noise Icons LIVE SKULL Release New Album ‘What Could Go Wrong?’
NYC post-punk/experimental noise icons LIVE SKULL are today proud to release their new album, What Could Go Wrong?, out now via Bronson Recordings.
To celebrate the release of the band’s fourth studio album since reforming, the quartet are sharing album focus track ‘4th Conspiracy’, also out now on all good digital streaming providers.
Subtle, complex guitar textures meet haunting, downbeat vocals, moving between melody, noise and chaos: the sound of New York City. Sparked by an upside-down flag flown at a Supreme Court Justice’s home, the song cuts through political smoke screens.
The band comment: “It’s easy to make up endless conspiracies, to try and obscure the truth. But what a joke, most of us can see right through the pathetic smoke screens.”
New album What Could Go Wrong? was recorded and mixed by the band themselves at Deepsea—Mark C’s studio in Hoboken, NJ—the vintage factory building is Live Skull’s home base, where bands like Yo La Tengo and Sonic Youth have also based studios.
Reverberations of the early 20th century industrial landscape shine through in Live Skull’s very alive onslaught, reminiscent of the early grinding sound that grew out of Mark C.’s raw Noho loft space back in the day.
Lead single ‘Internal Combustion’ and follow up ‘Freak Out! Jackpot’ were released earlier this year to support from Spotify’s All New Rock, STEREOGUM, DORK Magazine, Classic Rock Magazine, The Big Takeover Magazine, Scene Point Blank and more.
The band played the album live in full earlier this week at a special pre-release party at Main Drag Music in Brooklyn, NYC with support from Philly no wavers Luna Honey and Brooklyn’s own The Dice Holes.
Live Skull will be announcing further live dates over the coming weeks.