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Much like the suburbs from whence it sprang, Skittish is a bleeding, sweating, writhing ball of human nature, bursting at the seems, but ultimately suppressed and packaged in neatly crafted boxes. Songs and suburbs have seedy underbellies to spare.
Skittish masks every bruise and blackened eye with handclaps and harmonies; every well trimmed lawn and uber-catchy melody are woven together by subversive humor and an undercurrent of anarchy. Yes, this is quite ambitious, but anything less wouldn’t matter. And to matter, in this prepackaged world, is an admirable ambition indeed.

The 2004 brainchild of recent college graduate Jeff Noller, Skittish breached-birthed its way into the world through a meltdown of other main-stream rock projects. Noller had played in many soulless pop-rock bands during college, but the always vibrant Minneapolis music scene seemed poised for a change of sound. Wanting to do something different, Noller quit his other bands and retreated to his suburban-Minnesota parents’ basement with Protools on a Mac, and some second-hand instruments to record ‘…from my parents basement.’ This collection of quirky songs, and his passionate live shows, gained the one-man-band local notoriety.
Subsequent touring led to burnout and crisis of faith in music. An application for the Peace Corps was hastily filled out, and altruistic self-satisfaction slowly set in. But inspiration, it seems, strikes at the most inconvenient times.

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  • shelldingle

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    18 Oct 2008 Reply
  • GeeMonster

    You guys make me happy! I was browsing my emails today, and I happen to check my Eventful email to see who was plaing this fall. There under September, was Skittish! I'm going to try my darndest to make the show, because that would be a splendid good time!

    25 Aug 2008 Reply
  • hipdoof

    My campus radio station was giving away used albums for free last year. This was one of the ones I picked up. Great stuff.

    5 Jul 2008 Reply
  • ifeltyourshape

    Happily Ever After is ridiculously catchy. And the X-Files love makes me happy.

    21 Sep 2007 Reply