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This New York trio makes almost unclassifiable music. Consisting of drums, bass and electric violin, these boys produce some of the most intense, volatile and exciting music. It's like gypsy folk meets punk rock. It's an epic avant-garde permutation of rock. Although this band is only instrumental, the violin takes on a leading role and the tracks vary throughout the record with some being straight-up, melt-your-face-off epic to being danceable to being thoughtfully beautiful.
-Kalamazoo Gazette (WIDR Top 5)
Pycior’s violin work combines progressive rock leads with discordant keys, neoclassical melodies, and worldly flavor. Andrew Platt’s bass rumbles with the force of Shellac or The Jesus Lizard, and Tris Palazzolo’s drums thud with urgent ferocity. The trio’s mixture is unlike almost anything else, and this comes highly recommended.
-Alarm Magazine
If you haven’t heard the instrumental trio Skeletonbreath, you’ve missed out. The band played an intriguing style of surf-rock, with rhythms provided by Andrew Platt’s mind-blowing bass and Tris Palazzolo’s drums. There were heavy gypsy overtones in there, too, thanks to Robert Pycior’s wicked violin.
-Denver Post
With New York’s Skeletonbreath, the violin is the centerpiece, the band’s monolithic spinal column. Playing a sort of Gypsy-punk-dancehall mélange, Skeletonbreath’s repertoire is full of songs that showcase the virtuoso possibilities of the violin in new and intriguing settings, knocking the stereotype on its ass and imbuing the instrument with new life and potential.
Frenetic, chaotic, and continually changing, Skeletonbreath’s work makes excellent use of independence and originality — all three members effortlessly shift from supporting one another to taking leads and performing separate but intertwined passages. The end result is complicated but magnetic, an intricate listening experience
-Pacific Northwest Inlander
With the first shock of frantic violin, everyone shut up and turned to the stage. What the hell was this? Like some sort of violating act, Skeletonbreath had that effect on the crowd: “I don’t know what’s going on, I don’t know if it’s wrong or it’s right…but I like it.”
-Focused Magazine
Like a mutant child of A Hawk And A Hacksaw and Lightning Bolt, Skeletonbreath deliver spazzy Eastern European-tinged instrumental indie-prog worth getting weird to. . Alternately eccentrically macabre and exuberantly triumphant, Skeletonbreath’s ‘Eagle’s Nest, Devil’s Cave’ trades in a wild melodicism rarely seen in instrumental music, and it’s a refreshing turn from an NY band you’ll be hearing lots about in 2009.
-Terrorbird Media
Truly distinctive and sometimes truly twisted, Skeletonbreath’s Eagle’s Nest, Devil’s Cave is a persistent, chilling, shadowy, otherworldly, combustible record. Appropriate listening material for the last great ferry ride of your soul, the shrieking strings and thundering percussion swells with equal parts delightful zeal and undeniable gloom.
-Jordan Richardson for Blogcritics.com