Skeletons & the Kings of All Cities Get Short-Shrifted

PAPERMAG contributor Jonas Oransky sent us this here little screed this morning:

Like them or not, Editors really have to be out-marqueed for their new record not to get Pitchfork's top review spot on any given day. It takes a band with serious vintage and a little mainstream crossover -- a band like the Meat Puppets. And the Puppets did win that popularity contest on Pfork today, even as both albums were trashed in their top-of-the-fold reviews.

So it really sucks for the little guys, Skeletons & the Kings of All Cities. Their new album Lucas -- read what else I had to say about it here -- got a great review today [8.2], but the piece was stuck not only below the Puppets and Editors, but also under a German dance compilation, which failed to pull even a 6. And Lucas' rating just barely failed to earn the record a "Recommended" appellation, which would have given it some extra play.

How long is the attention span of the Pitchfork reader? Will he or she even get to the Skeletons review? Will the band get their due from a potential audience that would probably get interested if they knew the king of websites loved this record?