THE SOUND OF NOW: ROB MOSS And THE SKIN-TIGHT SKIN'S NEW ALBUM, RECORDS

Rob Moss And The Skin-Tight Skin rassemble en un seul album (son troisième) les singles parus au cours des précédents mois et y rajoute un titre inédit. Une bien belle moisson de rock nous est ainsi proposée. Son titre "In The Canebrake" a été classé 4ème de notre Top Monstres du 12 Mai dernier. C'est dire si c'est un groupe que nous apprécions tout particulièrement. Rob a gentiment accepté de nous présenter lui-même son travail.

Son album parait aujourd'hui à l'occasion de son anniversaire.

Happy Birthday, Rob !

Part of the original Washington DC hardcore scene, I played in several bands in the early 1980s ((Government Issue, Artificial Peace, etc.) before putting away my bass. After a long hiatus from making music, I picked up a guitar in 2016 and got right back into songwriting. 

 

My sound is a combination of protopunk rock 'n' roll and glam, which was the kind of music that got me to form a band in the first place back in 1979. That sound comes through on my latest album entitled, RECORDS

On all of his albums, I enlist a different lead guitarist to play on each song. On RECORDS, you'll hear Anthony Piazza (Sister Ex, Winter Sect), Arthur Alexander (The Poppees, Sorrows), Charles Hansen (Justine and The Unclean), Clive Wright (Broken English, Cock Robin), Curt Florczak (Hammered Saint, The Mochines), Dan Kopko (WATTS, The Shang Hi Los), Paul Armstrong (The Flashcubes, 1.4.5), Pedro Sjosted (Muck and the Mires), Randy Klawon (The Choir, Cyrus Erie), Robbi Robb (Asylum Kids, Tribe After Tribe), and Tony Reed (Mos Generator). Collaborating this way enables me to work with a variety of musicians who bring their perspective to the song, making them better in the process.

Jen D'Angora (Jenny Dee & The Deelinquents, The Shang Hi Los) also joins in, and sings a duet with me on a song.
Guest musicians who've played on my two other albums include Billy Loosigian (Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band), Bob 'Derwood' Andrews (Generation X), Bob Balch (Fu Manchu), Don Fleming (Velvet Monkeys), Franz Stahl (Scream, Wool, Foo Fighters), Greg Strzempka (Raging Slab), Mario Monterosso (Tav Falco's Panther Burns), Marshall Keith and Martha Hull (both of The Slickee Boys), Nels Cline (Wilco), Sal Baglio (The Amplifier Heads, The Stompers), Spit Stix (Fear) and Stuart Casson (CRYMWAV, Smash Fashion) – just to name a few.
Danny Frankel is the drummer on both RECORDS and my previous album, Now With More Rockets. Danny was Lou Reeds' drummer as well as the drummer in the Urban Verbs. Danny has also worked with John Cale, Nels Cline, Laurie Anderson, Marianne Faithful, Beck, and others.

While Dwight Reid played bass on my last two albums, this time, Canadian, Tom McNally (The Bricks, Vaguemen, Overland Express) plays bass. However, Dwight makes an appearance on RECORDS, singing backup vocals on several songs. 

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