Skeletons (band)

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Skeletons
Origin	Oberlin, Ohio
Genre(s)	Experimental music
Years active	2002–present
Label(s)	Shinkoyo Ghostly International
Website	Official Site
Members
Matthew Mehlan Jason McMahon Tony Lowe Jonathan Leland
Former members
Carson Garhart Cyrus Pireh Severiano Martinez Justin Craun Mike Ames Sam Kulik Ryan Snow Johnny Misheff Owen Cannon

Skeletons (also known as Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys and Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities) are an American rock band from New York City. Skeletons began as the solo project of Chicago native musician and filmmaker Matt Mehlan in 2001. In 2003, Mehlan released the albums Life and the Afterbirth and I’m At the Top of the World on Shinkoyo, an Oberlin, Ohio based music collective, known for its focus on group improvisation and DIY ethics.

Following the name change from Skeletons to Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys and the addition of a rotating cast of collaborators, the full-length Git was released on Ghostly International Records in June 2005, garnering comparisons ranging from Can to Animal Collective to Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey.

In 2007, Skeletons released the album Lucas, also on Ghostly, under the name Skeletons and the Kings of All Cities. The album was recorded in the band's converted Queens warehouse studio and home, The Silent Barn. Lucas was described by Pitchfork as "an outsize global-a-go-go mélange of unceasing polyrhythms, Afrobeat guitars, free jazz, and Timbaland's approach to kitchen-sink percussion."^[1]