"Hal, who’s empty but not dumb, theorizes privately that what passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human … is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naive and goo-prone and generally pathetic… One of the really American things about Hal, probably, is the way he despises what it is he’s really lonely for: this hideous internal self, incontinent of sentiment and need, that pules and writhes just under the hip empty mask, anhedonia."
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Here's what people are saying about us:
"It’s funky, it’s fun and it’s eminently danceable."
-Winston Roache at Winston's Zen
"[T]he subtle sophistications of this warm and fuzzy music collective is at once celebratory and cerebral, and somehow, at times, also danceable. Already with a masterful sensibility for beautiful bob-and-weave dance beats jubilantly bouncing under burning guitars, a cool careening hit-the-floor vibe tempered with more somber, sweet solemnities of unique nocturnal cricket-orchestras with synth and drum machines under soft stream of conscious lyrics, poignant and whirled."
-Jeff Milo on Deep Cutz blog
"Where your interests lie is an exercise in intimacy, as disconcerting as it is inviting. . . [Willy's] vulnerable voice and close-to-the-bone confessions lend humanity to a soundscape driven mainly by synths and drum machines. His lyrics are dense and syntactically challenging, but well worth unpacking."
-Ben Lucas of Great Lakes Indie Music Review.
"This is a version of ["Where Did Our Love Go?"] as performed when lost at sea. When slowly spinning in circles in a round little dinghy, with candles for atmosphere, and the supper of distilled salt water and dried seaweed having been joyously consumed. . .But when the wind stops and the motion settles briefly, they keep on singing. An intention, a hallucination, being all they can claim as their own in this strange boiling air."
-Dan Beirne of Said the Gramophone.
"Recordo que aquest grup vaig coneixe'l escoltant un dels meus podcasts preferits, KEXP, una radio de Seattle, i em vaig enamorar del cover que van fer de la canço de The Supremes 'Where did our love go?'"
-Earl Grey with Milk
"["Where Did Our Love Go?"] forges a place in my heart for good. I think about sending the track to the one pair of ears that ought hear it; I refrain for various reasons...This is by far this month’s choice cut."
-Rahawa Haile on The Pop Filter.
"They have a sound all their own: slinky slow jams with stuttered beats and smart, long-winded lyrics."
-Jason Adam Voss of WCBN Ann Arbor.
"Night shall eat these girls and boys. grasp both [originality and heart] tenderly, and lead hand-in-hand, refreshing our pallets skillfully by delivering well-cooked lyrics with fresh, clichéless instrumentation."
-Alex Haber in The Eastern Echo.
"However, the song is just plain good...This guy knows how to write songs, and you can’t buy that."
-Michael Edwards on michaeledwardsmusic.com
Night shall eat these girls and boys. is a musical collective orchestrated by William t. Skillets. Sometimes we are a lot of people, sometimes a few, sometimes just one. The music is mostly electro-pop these days and it's getting dancier all the time. Let us know if you want to join in.
Where your interests lie. [EP] 1. These sorries stop
2. There are bigger things 3. Where your interests lie
4. Mammoth Beach
5. slowdance
6. Zip Zap Zup
7. Lily and i
"...seven songs of tragic beauty and often watery-eyed gushers of crumbled relationships or a more worldly reverence for the things that really matter in life, put to aerodynamic, singularly stunning electro-groove instrumentation, often stripping it all down to the most simple of melodic statements from the trio (all 21 or younger), who know how to harmonize and often bring a very danceable beat to the table."
-Jeff Milo in Real Detroit Weekly
Austin, Alex and Willy recorded, Noah sang and did some stuff with shoes, Steve mixed, Scott drew, VGKids printed.
$10 shipped to US or Canada.
Moon Monster Shirts
Dark blue shirts with Night about to eat a girl and a boy in light blue. Willy drew, Abby printed.
Pre-shrunk, 100% cotton.
$13 shipped to US or Canada.
(Click to enlarge.)
Japanese Firefighter Shirts
Marigold shirts with an image in black stolen from an ancient Japanese scroll of a squad of firefighters. (Seriously.)
Scott designed, Abby printed, Bair posed.
50/50 Cotton/Polyester Blend.
$13 shipped to US or Canada.
Killer Combo Pack
Buy a shirt and CD together and save a million dollars!
$17 shipped to US or Canada.
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We will play your show. We love house parties.
Really. Any event ever. This includes your little sister's birthday party and your grandmother's funeral.* Just send us a message.
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Dude, that thing on your profile with links to everyone you have played withs myspace is awesome. I've never seen one of those on myspace before and it is a great little feature. Just thought I would share.
yo willey. I'm trying to get the word out about. http://themovablefulcrum.blogspot.com The conversation of the month is with the writer/director of The Guatemalan Handshake. I'm looking forward to our show on 13th Oct! Take care man...
