A thread to anticipate Dead Man's Bones

Am I alone here?

Nope! I've had "dead man's bones" a track they put up on their myspace over a year ago for AGES and love the whole Tom Waits/Modest Mouse vibe they have going. Th fact that Ryan Gosling is awesome doesn't hurt. I didn't realize that the project had actually made any headway. It seemed to have petered off.

this is quite wonderful.

ryan gosling is pretty much ws btw.

the formative years of an Oscar-nominated actor turned creepy children's music maker:

Awesome, yeah, June release?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEvF7qUf2Pc

from Pitchfork today:

Back in January, we introduced you to Dead Man's Bones, the goth-folk collaboration between actors Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields. Since then, only two of their charming, creepy songs have been made public, via a pair of self-created videos: "Name in Stone" and "In the Room Where You Sleep". Finally, this fall, everyone will get to hear more. On October 6, Anti- will release Dead Man's Bones' self-titled debut album. (It was previously titled [i]Never Let a Lack of Talent Get You Down.)

In our interview with Gosling and Shields, the pair discussed the creation of the album, which was recorded with the Silverlake Conservatory Children's Choir, a group of Los Angeles-area kids ranging in age from five to 17. Gosling described the motivation behind the album's aesthetic: "You know when you're a kid and you get crayons and papers and just draw whatever you want and it's just a bunch of messy lines, but to you it makes sense, and then they put it on the fridge? From that point on, you're always trying to get back on the fridge, you start drawing things that look like something, like, the more it looks like a horse, the more chance you have of getting it on the fridge. We wanted to get back to that place before we were trying to make the fridge. We wanted to work with people who hadn't been affected in that way yet."

Someone should tell him about the Arcade Fire and how we already have one.

i am streaming this and need someone to tell me if i am crazy for thinking it might be kind of great?

k it's not actually that great but it's decent

lol arcade fire zing lol

lol i'm not really sure where that comp comes from--what i remember from the arcade fire was that they were bombastic and self-serious. this is fun and campy.

whole album is up on their myspace it looks like. i don't know if i would listen to it all the time, but i really like the sound of it and some of the songs.