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Vinyl LP pressing. 2018 . Their second album, Skiff, is a new direction for The Skiffle Players. Now, they all sing and write. There is no leader. Recorded at Infinitespin Recorders in Van Nuys CA, with engineer Matt InchLinnyInch Linesch, the album begins with a bold opening; the Farmer Dave Scher-penned InchCara,Inch heavy information for the soul. Then, into classic Cass McCombs insanity on InchLocal Boy,Inch a wild ride on the run from the cops. Third is a touching tribute to a bygone companion, InchMiss It When It's Gone,Inch written and led by Neal Casal. The album's revolving perspective continues to bounce around, leaving no apparent land to stand upon. In that, it is deeply subversive. For there is nothing to defend, but the ability to transform and imagine. The album continues to unfold back to McCombs with a satire on justice, InchThe Law Offices Of Dewey, Cheatum And Howe.Inch It goes from the saloon InchLong Horns, Long Necks, Long Legs,Inch to the rainforest InchHerbamera.Inch Casal blasts in again with the sun-bleached rambler, InchLos Angeles Alleyway.Inch Scher's InchSkifflemanInch sings a song for everyone. McCombs plays with memory in a song about coming of age in the Bay Area on InchOakland Scottish Rite Temple Waltz.Inch Penultimately, InchSanta FeInch is an elliptical broadside about materialism and waste. The album concludes by pushing off again, out into the familiar waters of a traditional skiffle number, InchSweet Georgia Brown,Inch each member taking a perhaps all-too casual solo. This is acoustic dance music at it's finest. It is also refreshingly contradictory, irreverent and mystical, deeply personal and communal, and traditional and profane-the ever revolving and disintegrating ship known as Skiff.
