Skeleton Coast

Skeleton Coast was recorded 30 miles east of El Paso, TX at Sonic Ranch Studios with long-time producer Matt Allison. The album contains the elements of the band’s sound that fans have come to love for the past two decades but recontextualises them in a way that somehow sounds perfectly aligned with this strange time in our collective history. Although it was written and recorded before the Coronavirus upended the world, the band’s seventh studio album sounds eerily prescient as it imagines an apocalyptic future where coyotes croon and wolf packs roam free.

The Lawrence Arms have never had any agenda apart from just having fun and making good music. Since forming in Chicago in 1999 - the trio of bassist/vocalist Brendan Kelly, guitarist/vocalist Chris McCaughan and drummer Neil Hennessy - have made albums that continually challenge the boundaries of their sound. In the process they have carved out a distinctive identity in the punk community that’s simultaneously gritty, beautiful, melodic and mutinous.

Tracklisting 

01. Quiet Storm
02. PTA
03. Belly of the Whale
04. Dead Man's Coat
05. Pigeons and Spies
06. Last, Last Words
07. (The) Demon
08. Ghostwriter
09. How To Rot
10. Under Paris
11. Goblin Foxhunt
12. Lose Control
13. Don't Look At Me
14. Coyote Crown