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ARMS is what happens when the back burner bursts into flame. A one-time side project transformed into a full band, ARMS synthesizes Todd Goldstein’s years of bedroom experimentation and sharpens them into a single bright blade.

Goldstein has been writing and recording songs as ARMS since 2004 — although never quite like this. During his years playing guitar in NYC-based indie rockers Harlem Shakes, Todd quietly self-released his own music as ARMS, sneaking home-recording sessions in his rare spare time. Todd’s first album as ARMS – the luminous, ramshackle pop of Kids Aflame – was released on Melodic Records (UK) / Gigantic Music (US) in 2008 to enthusiastic Internet-praise. When Harlem Shakes disbanded in the summer of 2009, Goldstein expanded ARMS into a full band with the addition of Tlacael Esparza on drums, Matty Fasano on bass / vocals and David Harrington on keyboards / electronics. The group immediately began writing the songs that would become Summer Skills, holing up with producer Shane Stoneback (Vampire Weekend, Sleigh Bells, Cults, Fucked Up) in Stoneback’s Treefort Studios in Brooklyn.

Amid the life-or-death stakes of Summer Skills, noses drip kerosene, chill winds blow sweet and razor-sharp teeth gleam in the darkness. It’s this terrain of texture and mood, set among the long purple shadows of August afternoons, that underpins the album’s sequence of haunting moments — little nightmares lit with the blurry shine of dreams. With Summer Skills, ARMS manages the elusive trick of weaving these threads into something both lush and beautifully, painfully alive.
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  • leonarbe

    Love Glass Harmonica... Awesome play

    last week

  • BabsSzabo

    you guys should check out this band Chappo, I've been listening to them on repeat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgo1nkGBejs

    last month

  • withtheflow

    SUMMER SKILLS SUMMER SKILLS SUMMER SKILLS. ARMS WILL ALWAYS BE ONE OF MY FAVES.

    January 2012

  • xParker

    Wish I gave Summer Skills some love when it came out. This is a really good album, a definite improvement over their debut.

    January 2012

  • caro_g

    jaja brazos en similar artists

    December 2011

  • nafeesrawji

    Whats there best album?

    December 2011

  • summervillain

    Summer Skills FTW

    December 2011

  • spacematador

    I saw this band open for japandroids last year. I don't remember much of anything

    November 2011
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