The Lawrence Arms – ‘Skeleton Coast’
Since forming in 1999, The Lawrence Arms have wanted to take us through the windswept streets of their hometown of Chicago. We’d hear tales from the late night bars, the basement shows, and generally be thrust into the claustrophobic nature of life in the belly of a sprawling metropolis. Now they want to take you to ‘Skeleton Coast’ – a blood orange panorama where only the howls of coyotes and the crashing of waves can be heard as the sun sets, and a reference to the shipwrecked shores of Namibia. The trio’s seventh album follows a long break from 2014’s ‘Metropole’ but, in their words, this is their “most urgent” record, with an approach unlike their previous releases. Recorded in two weeks in the dust bowl setting of El Paso, Texas, ‘Skeleton Coast’ is an album that matches its su...
