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A guy who looks like a guy playing a guy holding a box and a guy who looks like a guy playing a preachy guy meet and go for a walk together on the railroad tracks. Their stride is (eerily?) in sync with the slow-stepping, workaday rhythms of name-shifting Brooklyn-via-Oberlin collective Skeletons and their song "Stepper aka Work", from last year's Tomlab full-length Money. The music is similar to that of labelmates No Kids: loose, orchestral pop, with bubbling electronics and a heavy rhythmic component. The lyrics are not similar to those of No Kids: "What I thought I wanted was a little bit of hope ... What I really wanted was a big box of normal," Skeletons founder Matt Mehlan intones in a casual tenor. Hey, I wonder if that has something to do with the guy playing a guy holding a box. Meanwhile, down by the river, dude takes a baptismal. The holy book floats downstream. And the second guy, the guy who looked like he was playing a preachy guy, starts to look like a guy playing a guy who wants money. Work sucks, I know. But it's nice if you can get it.

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[from Money; out now on Tomlab]