Do You Wanna Have A Skeleton Dream?, by big blood

Do You Wanna Have A Skeleton Dream?

by big blood

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Mitternacht Like a lost Ronettes record - love this new direction!

Was Ist Das? absolutely astonishing, classic soul, pop, psyche and rock and all merged in one gorgeous assembly Favorite track: Insecure Kids.

Grain Sparrow This album is so vital a part of Big Blood's discography that it boggles my mind to remember there was a time it didn't exist. It's Quinnisa's grand entry and psychedelic enough that, by the end, a gorgeous gem of a folk song morphs somehow into Schubert and I don't even bat an eye. Favorite track: Heaven or South Portland.

Karl Ward I want this exact amount of distortion on *everything* Favorite track: Sweet Talker.

morgan i i fn love colleens voice. Favorite track: Sugar.

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1.	Skeleton Dream 00:09		buy track
2.	Sweet Talker 02:54	info	buy track
3.	Sugar 05:51	info	buy track
4.	Real World 02:19	info	buy track
5.	Providence 04:52	info	buy track
6.	Pox 06:25	info	buy track
7.	Do You Wanna Have A Skeleton Dream 00:12		buy track
8.	Heaven or South Portland 06:43	info	buy track
9.	Insecure Kids 05:17	info	buy track
10.	Monsters of Men 07:27	lyrics	buy track
Colleen - Lead Vocal, Guitar, Piano Quinnisa - Ethereal Vocal, Trombone Caleb - Bass, Sounds
11.	Ave Maria (Schubert) 03:07		buy track

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1st Pressing – Black Vinyl – Out of Print.
2nd Pressing – Neon Magenta Vinyl - Out of Print
3rd Pressing - Coming Soon
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Big Blood is:
Colleen Kinsella
Caleb Mulkerin
Quinnisa Kinsella Mulkerin

Written and recorded at home by Big Blood.
This album is dedicated to Paul Yves Reny, Greta Thunberg and Fred Cole. Thank You to Feeding Tube Records.

Taken From Feeding Tube Records:
Wow! Great new LP by the full trio version of Maine’s Big Blood. Colleen, Caleb and Quinnisa are all present and accounted for at every turn on this one!

Unlike their last LP, The Daughter’s Union (FTR 459) (which seemed like some sort of experiment involving glam-rock-readymades), Do You Wanna? is awash with crazily re-imagined girl group dynamics. Some of these tight-sparkly-dress recreations have a savage teenage authority, but others wiggle more like dreams stolen from the nodes of Julee Cruise, Angelo Badalmanetti or David Lynch. Sometimes there are style-ghosts standing in all the expected places, but none of them are behaving the way we’d expect.

But I do not wish to paint the sound here as monochromatic. There are many of Big Blood’s classic elements employed with trademark pluck — witchy patches recalling early Spires That in the Sunset Rise, small balloons filled with glitter & gas-pulses, bubbling pools of pure psychedelic confusion. But the strange sophistication of children wearing Diana Ross masks is something new. And it’s such a mesmerizing vision, I find myself paying extra attention to it.

But then again, that’s just the surface. The lyrics here are of a piece with Big Blood’s patented approach of creating surrealist poetry in a rural and arrestingly original American style. Quinissa’s newly rampant influence seems to be grounding some of the lyrical imagery in more quotidian scenes (”Insecure Kids,” etc.), but with the parental examples she’s afforded on a daily basis, this may just be a phase. But whatever else it is, Do You Wanna? is another amazing spin from Big Blood. And there’s even a poster you can pin on your memory board. Talk about your win/win situations!

-Byron Coley

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released February 28, 2020

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