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CALL ME LIGHTNING - Soft Skeletons
| Lost At Sea magazine | | A few years ago, like Les Savy Fav's little brother just banging on my bedroom door trying to get in, Call Me Lightning came out of nowhere and hit me over the head with their Milwaukee-bred, fun, punky art rock. While the production brings the vocals a little more into the frontlight this time around, the trio have continued with a style and sound similar to that of their first album, with instrumentation that is just as strong, if not stronger. Essentially Soft Skeletons is what a good band should sound like on their sophomore album - better. They seem like a tighter, more professional threesome here....full text |
| | Treble | | When Milwaukee's most wiry and hyperactive power trio Call Me Lightning released their debut The Trouble We're In on hardcore label Revelation, it seemed somewhat out of place. Given a roster of bands who sound nothing less than brutal, menacing and even, at times, horrifying, Call Me Lightning's spastic Minutemen-inspired punk was nothing short of an anomaly....full text |
| | JunkMedia | | Unfortunately for Call Me Lightning, the generic prog-rock boat sailed long before 2007. The majority of Soft Skeletons is derivative and boring. The band squeals with quirky guitar riffs and slams heavy chords over melodramatic lyrics, but never truly commits to their sound. On the track "Beaming Streaks," when I hear the lyrics "human hair sneaking out everywhere. I’ll groom it when I die," all I can think of is Samara from The Ring - white, pasty, and crawling out of a well. Call Me Lightning supports the theory that gloomy experimentation for its own sake doesn’t always leave listeners satisfied....full text |
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