Skin and Bones (Flashy Python album)

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Skin and Bones
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Studio album by Flashy Python
Released August 11, 2009
Recorded 2009, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
Genre Rock
Length41:17
Label Self-released
Producer Alec Ounsworth
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork Media (6.5/10) [1]
Strangeglue (6/10) [2]

Skin and Bones is the debut album by Flashy Python. It appeared without any pre-release press on the band's official website, from where it is available for streaming, high-quality mp3 download, and purchase in physical form on CD or Vinyl.

Flashy Python is a project by Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Their debut album, Skin and Bones, was self-released in 2009.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Alec Ounsworth.

  1. "Let Us Hallucinate Together" - 3:21
  2. "The Lady is a Ghost" - 5:31
  3. "Ichiban Blues" - 3:30
  4. "Skin and Bones" - 4:31
  5. "Obscene Queen Bee" - 4:33
  6. "In the Darkness" - 4:53
  7. "Cattle's New Clothes" - 3:47
  8. "Avalon's Snake Breath" - 11:12
  9. "King Sutt" - 1:21 (Japanese edition bonus track)
  10. "Me and the Wife" - 4:01 (Japanese edition bonus track, alternate version of 'That is Not My Home (After Bruegel)' from Mo Beauty)
  11. "All and All" - 5:03 (Japanese edition bonus track)

Personnel

Alec Ounsworth American musician

Alec Ounsworth is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and frontman of indie rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. He is also a member of The Pelican Picnic and Flashy Python. Alec's first solo album, Mo Beauty was released October 20, 2009, on Anti- Records.

Tyler Sargent American musician

Tyler Sargent is the bassist and backing vocalist for the indie rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

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References

  1. Pitchfork Media review
  2. Strangeglue review