Bob Drake
The Skull Mailbox (and other Horrors)
LabelCrumbling Tomes ArchiveGenreExperimental
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The strangest so far. Mostly songs; a lot of acoustic instruments, a lot of unidentifiable sounds, a lot of fragments borne on a wind from somewhere else; bizarre picking interludes, humour (maybe) and snatches of incandescent playing. You can't pin this one down; it's full of twists and turns and a geometry that doesn't quite add up. Seemingly casual, there's not an ounce of fat on it, and the production - or anti-production - is, on repeated listening, quite extraordinary. Impressive.
Format
Made between October 1999 and September 2000 at Studio Midi-Pyrenees, France.
Release notes
Made between October 1999 and September 2000 at Studio Midi-Pyrenees, France.
| 1 | They Live In The Well | 1:36 | |
| 2 | The Skull Mailbox | 0:58 | |
| 3 | The Tower | 1:05 | |
| 4 | Cellar Of Madness | 1:57 | |
| 5 | The Box In The Orchard | 1:52 | |
| 6 | In The Tomb | 1:59 | |
| 7 | The Shocking Efflorescence | 1:30 | |
| 8 | Attar Of Roses | 0:31 | |
| 9 | The Miraculous Reliquary | 2:45 | |
| 10 | The Wig Screamed Murder | 2:23 | |
| 11 | Fearsome Heads | 1:37 | |
| 12 | Fearsome Heads II | 0:38 | |
| 13 | The Horrible Garden | 1:54 | |
| 14 | Some Accursed Thing | 3:28 | |
| 15 | You Can't Outwit That Thing | 1:04 | |
| 16 | The Demented Statuary | 2:52 | |
| 17 | It | 1:00 | |
| 18 | The Unmentionable Inhabitant | 1:05 | |
| 19 | The Tragic Seance | 1:02 | |
| 20 | Something's Coming | 0:31 | |
| 21 | Calla Lily | 1:57 | |
| 22 | Spirit Drapery Veils The Hiatus | 2:28 | |
| 23 | The Hideous Portraits | 1:26 | |
| 24 | Spirit Drapery Reprise | 0:38 | |
| 25 | Crepuscular Vestibule | 0:35 | |
| 26 | You STILL Can't Outwit That Thing | 1:13 | |
| 27 | The Medium's House | 3:37 |
- Nick Hvostik
- Artwork
- Bob Drake
- Performer, Voice, Music By, Lyrics By, Recorded By, Mixed By
