Spooky
14.09.09
For those of you awaiting your vinyl copies of Fat Freddy's The Big BW, the wax is in the country and we'll be shipping them from today. So prepare to crank up your gramophone.
Release Of The Day
The Upbeats - Big Skeleton
The Upbeats wake the dead with Big Skeleton and the whispered terror walks once again. If you're The Upbeats, you never know when inspiration is going to hit - and in this particular scenario, their inspiration was a whispered Brazilian ghetto story related to them by a friend.
The story of the Caveraos (English translation: Big Skeleton), a super-tank full of Navy Seal-trained Brazilian gang members known to terrorise the favelas of Rio De Janeiro, or on good days, distribute Nike sneakers and free cable. Sounds pretty messed up, right?
As you've probably gathered by now, The Upbeats were suitably taken with this story, and so titled their third album Big Skeleton, out of homage to the Caveraos - and horror in general.
Have a great day.
Ed
