The Skull Mailbox (And Other Horrors)

by Bob Drake

The Skull Mailbox (And Other Horrors) cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: ReR Megacorp
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:41
  • Community rating: 3.59/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Entirely self-produced and recorded in a rural French barn, 'The Skull Mailbox' is an eccentric collection of gothic vignettes. Bob Drake pairs intricate acoustic guitar work and avant-garde structures with humorously macabre lyricism, resulting in a deeply quirky, Halloween-tinged listening experience.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, scary, halloween, experimental, male-vocals, improvisational, aleatory, unpolished, theatrical, dark-humor, storytelling, progressive

Tracklist

  1. They Live In The Well (1:36)
  2. The Skull Mailbox (0:58)
  3. The Tower (1:05)
  4. Cellar Of Madness (1:57)
  5. The Box In The Orchard (1:52)
  6. In The Tomb (1:59)
  7. The Shocking Efflorescence (1:30)
  8. Attar Of Roses (0:31)
  9. The Miraculous Reliquary (2:45)
  10. The Wig Screamed Murder (2:23)
  11. Fearsome Heads (1:37)
  12. Fearsome Heads II (0:38)
  13. The Horrible Garden (1:54)
  14. Some Accursed Thing (3:28)
  15. You Can't Outwit That Thing (1:04)
  16. The Demented Statuary (2:52)
  17. It (1:00)
  18. The Unmentionable Inhabitant (1:05)
  19. The Tragic Seance (1:02)
  20. Something's Coming (0:31)
  21. Calla Lily (1:57)
  22. Spirit Drapery Veils The Hiatus (2:28)
  23. The Hideous Portraits (1:26)
  24. Spirit Drapery Reprise (0:38)
  25. Crepuscular Vestibule (0:35)
  26. You STILL Can't Outwit That Thing (1:13)
  27. The Medium's House (3:37)

Credits

  • Nick Hvostik - artwork
  • Eveline Ketterings - featuring
  • Maria Moran - featuring

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